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<i>[ police radio chatter ]</i>

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I'm the one and only
Big Freedia the Queen Diva,

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represented right here,

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from New Orleans, Louisiana.

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* You already know *

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[ siren blares ]

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<i>Newscaster: The death of</i>
<i>Big Freedia's brother Adam Ross</i>

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<i>marks the second</i>
<i>fatal shooting</i>

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<i>in Central City this month.</i>

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<i>Ross was found shot</i>
<i>multiple times</i>

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<i>on Martin Luther King Jr.</i>
<i>Boulevard</i>

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<i>near Magnolia in Central City.</i>

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I love you so much.

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We know
we have guardian angels.

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My mother and my brother,

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they're looking down upon us.

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<i>[ police radio chatter ]</i>

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When is it gonna stop?

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When they gonna stop
hurting our own people?

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When are they gonna
wake up and realize

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they're not the givers
or the takers of life?

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5, 4, 3, 2...

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[ siren blares ]

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Chorus: * Freedom *

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Man: There's a lot
of dynamics to gun violence.

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Like, ain't nobody
just jumping up

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saying "Oh, I'm gonna
just be a killer."

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* Freedom *

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The young guys
that I see come to jail,

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they--it's getting younger,

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younger and younger.

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* Freedom *

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* Freedom *

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Ashonta Wyatt:
You shall be sick and tired,

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sick and tired
of our babies being buried.

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Young man got gunned down
in a car,

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and y'all tell me
it ain't time to pray?

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* Freedom *

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Ashonta: We have to stand
against a culture of murder,

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a culture of vengeance,

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a culture of destruction,

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so we can stop putting
beautiful Black men

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in the ground.

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* Freedom *

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* Say it with a smile,
say it with a smile *

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Freedia:
New Orleans have to change.

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It has to wake up.

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The violence must stop.

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* Freedom *

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* Oh, well, well *

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* Don't be uneasy *

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* Well *

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* Don't be uneasy *

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* Well, well *

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* Don't be uneasy *

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* Jesus gon' make up
the dying bed *

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* He's a dying bed maker *

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* Well, well *

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* He's a dying bed maker *

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* Jesus gonna make up
the dying bed *

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We want to remember Adam
on tonight.

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Let us bow our heads
on a word of prayer.

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Dear Heavenly Father,

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tonight we ask You to bless us

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and keep Your loving arms
of protection around us.

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Ask You to fill these streets
with happiness and love, God.

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Heavenly Father, ask You

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to watch over
the city of New Orleans

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and stop the violence, God.

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So many family members
lose loved ones,

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and tonight
we're remembering ours.

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We ask you to have mercy
on this family, God.

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Continue to be our strength.

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Continue...

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to give me strength.

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Man: Take your time.

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...to be there for my family
when they need me the most.

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We're a strong little family,
and we will not give up.

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We are motivated,
and we are inspired by this.

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We thank You right now

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in the name of the Father,

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in the name of the Son,

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in the name of the Holy Ghost.

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Let all God's children
say "Amen."

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Amen.

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We love You as well.

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<i>The death of Big Freedia's</i>
<i>brother Adam Ross</i>

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<i>marks the second fatal shooting</i>
<i>in Central City this month.</i>

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Freedia: Knowing the type
of life that Adam lived

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and the people
that he ran with,

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I never not expected it.

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I was actually laying
right there on the sofa,

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and I got a phone call.

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Adam been shot uptown
on Martin Luther King.

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And I couldn't
pull myself together

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to even get in the car
at the time, you know,

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for probably about 5,
10 minutes.

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I pulled up...

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I pulled up, and I knew

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that it was more
than him being shot

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when I saw the yellow tape.

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And my sister Crystal
was already there

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'cause she stay
closer than I do.

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She was like, "He's dead."

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The keys was still
in the ignition.

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The car was still running.

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He was just gonna be there
for a few minutes.

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<i>[ police radio chatter ]</i>

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I don't know if he stopped

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and, like, wanted
to talk to somebody.

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Did he get into it
with somebody?

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My baby brother was gone,

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and it just was so unreal.

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When my mom died,

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she told me to look after
my brother and my sister.

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I just lost my baby brother,

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and I was feeling
all type of emotions.

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I was sad. I was angry.

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I wanted to hurt somebody.
I wanted to know who did it.

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I did have a few people
who reached out to me

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and wanted to retaliate.

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It was just like
"Say the word."

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I was just like "Thank you,
but no, thank you."

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That's not the route
that I'm taking.

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I don't want to have that
on my conscience.

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No one deserves
to get their lives taken,

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no matter what lifestyle
they lived,

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no matter what they do.

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They are not the givers
and the takers of life.

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There's only the Man up above.

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I want justice,

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but I want it done
the legal and the right way.

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<i>Newscaster: The police say</i>
<i>one man is responsible</i>

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<i>for a crime spree</i>

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<i>across New Orleans</i>
<i>yesterday evening,</i>

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<i>shooting at people</i>
<i>and stealing cars.</i>

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<i>25-year-old Charles Williams</i>
<i>was arrested last night.</i>

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<i>Police also believe</i>
<i>he's responsible</i>

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<i>for the death</i>
<i>of 38-year-old Ricky Goins.</i>

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Freedia: There's a story
of gun violence in America

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that people are not
talking about,

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but we're living in it.

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In my 36 years,
I can tell you

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I've done hundreds
and hundreds of these things,

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and every time
I open my mouth,

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I plead with my people
to look at each other

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and love each other
with the same vengeance

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that we choose to pick up guns
and slaughter each other.

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This is cultural genocide.
We're killing everything

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that's beautiful
about our people.

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A lot of people don't talk
about things that they see

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because they fear retaliation,

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but my only reply to them

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is "Fear isn't keeping us
safe anyway," you know,

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so I could be afraid
and not say anything,

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and the people around me
are still dying.

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Death and destruction
belong to all of us.

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This is a manmade problem.

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Or I can stand up
and let my life mean something

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and let my voice
mean something.

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If we take a stand
against gun violence

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as a collective,

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we can put this to rest.

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This has to be a city where
children can go to the park

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and not worry
about gun violence,

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just shots ringing out
and they're ducking and hiding.

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This has to be a city

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where I can lay down
in a bed at night

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and stop worrying about bullets
coming through my window.

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We do not live
in third world countries.

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We do not live in war zones.

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But we're living in war zones.

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And we're killing for sport.

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I'm waiting on y'all
to raise the white flag

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so we can stop putting
beautiful Black men

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in the ground.

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I've seen people murdered.

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I've known people
who were murdered.

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I've known people
who have murdered people.

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I'm also
an assistant principal

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at one of the middle schools
in the city.

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You know, my kids carry guns,
and they're in middle school.

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[ bell rings ]

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As much as I know

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it's not the right thing to do,

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in some circumstances,

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that's all they know.

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That is their protection.

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They think if they have it,
they're safe,

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but they don't know having it

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brings a whole bunch
of circumstances

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that I don't think
they're ready to face.

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How has gun violence,

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how does it affect you?

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Boy: Too many people died
that's young.

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Ashonta: Mm-hmm.

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We got people shooting babies
for nothing.

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I remember
when me and my friend

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were sitting on the porch
and a car just pulled up

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and they just started
shooting at us.

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And, like, once you--
you think you're about to die,

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it all click.

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Why can't we have fun
where we live?

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Why are we, like,
living with shootings

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and violence
and police chases?

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And, like,
y'all are literally...

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stuck in Grand Theft Auto.

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It's N--It's New Orleans.

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- It's New Orleans.
- Yeah.

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Mm-kay.
What about you, Lionel?

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Mm-hmm.

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Has violence personally
affected you

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in any sort of way?

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Like what?

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- Your mama was shot?
- Yeah.

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- Is your mom living now?
- Mm-mm.

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How old were you?

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7.

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- Yes, Mr. Walker?
- Yeah.

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<i>Police radio:</i>
<i>1415 St. Anthony.</i>

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<i>Supposed to be a Black male.</i>

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<i>Gunshot wound to the chest</i>
<i>in a burgundy car.</i>

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<i>- What is our perp information?</i>
<i>- No perp information.</i>

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After that...

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If you...

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born me into a world
where I don't have a daddy,

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you know, because
the same community

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that's raising me killed him.

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So I already have a attitude

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about the environment
in which I live.

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I have a chip on my shoulder
that nobody understands

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because they don't think
that,

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because he died
when I was a child,

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I'm not traumatized.

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That's trauma,

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and it's unaddressed trauma,

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so the fact that his father
was murdered

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in the same community

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that his mother is now
raising him in,

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he can be walking
amongst his father's killer.

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Do you know
what that does to a person?

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- You are so young--
- Yeah.

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...to be carrying a gun,

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- to be having charges.
- Mm-hmm.

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You know, to be even
in those situations.

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You--Y'all are still
in middle school.

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I was thinking
about carrying a gun

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when my daddy died,

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but I didn't,

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but when somebody
try to shoot him,

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they I just felt
that I needed protection

254
00:13:00.380 --> 00:13:02.282
'cause you can't always
run from a bullet.

255
00:13:04.384 --> 00:13:07.354
I just think
New Orleans will never change.

256
00:13:07.387 --> 00:13:10.223
We're in one of the most
dangerous cities,

257
00:13:10.256 --> 00:13:12.058
other than Charlotte.

258
00:13:12.092 --> 00:13:14.094
Growing up on Josephine,

259
00:13:14.127 --> 00:13:15.995
you know,
right in the 3rd Ward,

260
00:13:16.029 --> 00:13:17.964
I saw it all.

261
00:13:17.997 --> 00:13:20.300
My cousin was killed
over a 10-speed bike.

262
00:13:20.333 --> 00:13:24.037
So I saw all of this
growing up as a kid as well.

263
00:13:24.070 --> 00:13:26.039
If I come from seeing
all the same things

264
00:13:26.072 --> 00:13:27.407
that y'all see now

265
00:13:27.440 --> 00:13:30.010
and doing something different
and making a change,

266
00:13:30.043 --> 00:13:31.444
You can do it as well.

267
00:13:31.478 --> 00:13:33.146
It's really sad.

268
00:13:33.179 --> 00:13:34.447
Things have not got better.

269
00:13:34.481 --> 00:13:36.883
Things have gotten much worse.

270
00:13:36.916 --> 00:13:39.085
It was like they were
numb to the situation

271
00:13:39.119 --> 00:13:40.653
and they was expecting it.

272
00:13:40.687 --> 00:13:43.223
I probably saw that
a little bit more

273
00:13:43.256 --> 00:13:44.657
in my high school days,

274
00:13:44.691 --> 00:13:46.059
but these kids are seeing it

275
00:13:46.092 --> 00:13:48.361
in elementary
and in middle school.

276
00:13:49.462 --> 00:13:52.198
[ Erica Falls singing
"3rd Ward Bounce" ]

277
00:13:52.232 --> 00:13:54.267
Freedia:
* Uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh *

278
00:13:54.300 --> 00:13:56.936
I grew up uptown
on Josephine Street,

279
00:13:56.970 --> 00:13:59.172
where we saw a lot.
We heard a lot.

280
00:13:59.205 --> 00:14:01.207
* Ain't no place
like New Orleans *

281
00:14:01.241 --> 00:14:03.410
* It goes up
when we go down *

282
00:14:03.443 --> 00:14:05.011
It was a struggle growing up

283
00:14:05.045 --> 00:14:06.946
in the neighborhood
that I rolled up in.

284
00:14:06.980 --> 00:14:09.215
We saw poverty.
We saw drugs.

285
00:14:09.249 --> 00:14:11.217
We saw killings.

286
00:14:11.251 --> 00:14:13.420
We also had some fun times.

287
00:14:13.453 --> 00:14:15.655
* Uptown, 3rd Ward,
Josephine *

288
00:14:15.689 --> 00:14:18.091
* Then we head on down
to the Melpomene *

289
00:14:18.124 --> 00:14:20.060
* Then we dip on
through that Calliope *

290
00:14:20.093 --> 00:14:21.261
My old spot.

291
00:14:21.294 --> 00:14:23.096
* For that wild man gnome *

292
00:14:25.999 --> 00:14:27.701
Hello!

293
00:14:27.734 --> 00:14:30.103
- Hey. How's it going?
- Pretty good.

294
00:14:30.136 --> 00:14:33.139
This is my old house.
I grew up in this house.

295
00:14:33.173 --> 00:14:36.242
Want to come,
just take a look in here.

296
00:14:36.276 --> 00:14:37.711
Do a little reminiscing.

297
00:14:37.744 --> 00:14:38.978
Probably looks
a little different.

298
00:14:39.012 --> 00:14:40.146
It looks a lot different.

299
00:14:40.180 --> 00:14:43.183
- [ chuckles ]
- Mm-mm.

300
00:14:43.216 --> 00:14:46.519
We had a shotgun house,
a two-bedroom,

301
00:14:46.553 --> 00:14:49.155
and me, Adam, and Crystal
stayed in the same room,

302
00:14:49.189 --> 00:14:50.924
so we were very close.

303
00:14:53.126 --> 00:14:55.395
I can remember
we had bunkbeds in here

304
00:14:55.428 --> 00:14:57.731
and a twin bed.

305
00:14:57.764 --> 00:14:58.698
It was tight.

306
00:15:01.001 --> 00:15:03.269
We all played together.

307
00:15:03.303 --> 00:15:05.171
You know, we all went
to Sunday school and church

308
00:15:05.205 --> 00:15:07.140
on Sunday together.

309
00:15:07.173 --> 00:15:08.375
Yeah, we were very close
growing up.

310
00:15:11.411 --> 00:15:15.448
I was 5 when Adam was born.

311
00:15:15.482 --> 00:15:18.118
I was very protective,
you know.

312
00:15:18.151 --> 00:15:20.520
I wanted to be
the big brother.

313
00:15:22.756 --> 00:15:24.724
I felt like it was
my responsibility

314
00:15:24.758 --> 00:15:27.027
when I got older, especially,

315
00:15:27.060 --> 00:15:29.496
to look after my little brother
and my little sister.

316
00:15:29.529 --> 00:15:31.297
You know, I looked after them

317
00:15:31.331 --> 00:15:33.333
while we were outside
riding our bikes

318
00:15:33.366 --> 00:15:35.068
or whatever we were doing

319
00:15:35.101 --> 00:15:36.403
'cause my mom was always
at work

320
00:15:36.436 --> 00:15:38.138
and my dad would get off late

321
00:15:38.171 --> 00:15:40.073
'cause he drove for Coca-Cola.

322
00:15:40.106 --> 00:15:42.342
We'll be fighting
while my mama at work,

323
00:15:42.375 --> 00:15:44.210
and she'll have to come home

324
00:15:44.244 --> 00:15:47.280
because one of them
probably locked me out

325
00:15:47.313 --> 00:15:49.015
or I'll break the door.

326
00:15:49.049 --> 00:15:52.452
She'd come home
and whoop all three of our ass

327
00:15:52.485 --> 00:15:54.087
and then go back to work.

328
00:15:58.358 --> 00:16:01.761
I always knew that Freddie
was special from birth.

329
00:16:01.795 --> 00:16:04.464
I used to call him
my special child.

330
00:16:04.497 --> 00:16:06.332
I saw something special,

331
00:16:06.366 --> 00:16:08.068
but I didn't know
what that special was

332
00:16:08.101 --> 00:16:09.102
at that time.

333
00:16:11.404 --> 00:16:16.076
Being a young Black gay kid
growing up in my neighborhood,

334
00:16:16.109 --> 00:16:17.410
I would be picked on.

335
00:16:17.444 --> 00:16:20.313
I would be called
the fat sissy, you know,

336
00:16:20.347 --> 00:16:21.281
and I had to fight.

337
00:16:21.314 --> 00:16:22.782
Mom would go,

338
00:16:22.816 --> 00:16:24.484
"You better be a man
and stand up

339
00:16:24.517 --> 00:16:26.519
and go out there
and show them who you are."

340
00:16:29.322 --> 00:16:30.824
Let go, let's go.

341
00:16:30.857 --> 00:16:33.827
* N.O. bounce, N.O. bounce *

342
00:16:33.860 --> 00:16:35.562
* I'm that queen
gonna make you bounce *

343
00:16:35.595 --> 00:16:38.398
* N.O. bounce, N.O. bounce *

344
00:16:38.431 --> 00:16:40.400
* I'm that queen
gonna make you bounce *

345
00:16:45.538 --> 00:16:48.174
[ rapping ]

346
00:16:57.417 --> 00:17:00.387
Cali, Cali, Cali,
Cali, Cali, Cali-yo.

347
00:17:00.420 --> 00:17:02.522
All the projects
sing my songs.

348
00:17:02.555 --> 00:17:06.626
I would get a lot of attention
'cause I was this fat sissy

349
00:17:06.659 --> 00:17:09.262
going through the projects
and hollering and making noise,

350
00:17:09.295 --> 00:17:11.865
so people knew me
from my sound.

351
00:17:11.898 --> 00:17:13.633
They would say
"Quiet, girl, quiet, girl,"

352
00:17:13.667 --> 00:17:16.102
and I'd go * Whoa-oh-oh *

353
00:17:17.137 --> 00:17:19.305
You know, I would have
the whole projects jumping.

354
00:17:21.541 --> 00:17:23.610
And most projects
were very scary.

355
00:17:23.643 --> 00:17:25.445
If you wasn't born
and raised in them,

356
00:17:25.478 --> 00:17:27.881
you'll be terrified to go in.

357
00:17:27.914 --> 00:17:31.251
it was always
a territory thing where,

358
00:17:31.284 --> 00:17:32.419
if you was from
another project,

359
00:17:32.452 --> 00:17:34.554
you probably couldn't come
in this project.

360
00:17:34.587 --> 00:17:36.856
* Uptown, 3rd Ward,
Josephine *

361
00:17:36.890 --> 00:17:38.858
You know, some of the projects,
when you would go in them,

362
00:17:38.892 --> 00:17:41.194
the boys would pick on you
and be like,

363
00:17:41.227 --> 00:17:43.296
"Bitch, you ain't welcome
back here, you're a sissy,"

364
00:17:43.329 --> 00:17:45.131
or whatever, even though
they had sissies

365
00:17:45.165 --> 00:17:46.332
that stayed in the projects,

366
00:17:46.366 --> 00:17:49.169
but they only wanted
their sissies

367
00:17:49.202 --> 00:17:50.170
that grew up back there

368
00:17:50.203 --> 00:17:51.638
to be in their projects.

369
00:17:51.671 --> 00:17:53.640
I was the sissy
off of Josephine,

370
00:17:53.673 --> 00:17:56.543
so I was protected
by Josephine.

371
00:17:56.576 --> 00:17:58.645
So when I would go
outside of Josephine,

372
00:17:58.678 --> 00:18:01.181
it was like,
"Girl, you got to be careful.

373
00:18:01.214 --> 00:18:02.582
You're messing
with the Calio boys"

374
00:18:02.615 --> 00:18:04.150
or the Magnolia boys

375
00:18:04.184 --> 00:18:05.919
or whatever project
that I went in.

376
00:18:05.952 --> 00:18:07.287
* Make them hos count *

377
00:18:07.320 --> 00:18:09.155
[ echoing ]

378
00:18:09.189 --> 00:18:11.391
This is where
a lot of magic happened

379
00:18:11.424 --> 00:18:13.159
and a lot of bad things
as well,

380
00:18:13.193 --> 00:18:14.594
but this is what helped us

381
00:18:14.627 --> 00:18:16.696
to create the sounds
of bounce music--

382
00:18:16.730 --> 00:18:20.233
beating in these hallways,
beating on the walls,

383
00:18:20.266 --> 00:18:21.701
hurting our hands.

384
00:18:21.735 --> 00:18:23.636
Yeah.
I miss those good old days.

385
00:18:25.638 --> 00:18:28.375
Music has been very
important to my life.

386
00:18:28.408 --> 00:18:30.910
Music has kept me
out of trouble.

387
00:18:30.944 --> 00:18:33.713
It's the one and only
Big Freedia the Queen Diva!

388
00:18:33.747 --> 00:18:37.684
I thought he was gonna be
a gospel singer at first.

389
00:18:37.717 --> 00:18:39.319
Where you from?
Where you from?

390
00:18:39.352 --> 00:18:40.453
[ drum roll ]

391
00:18:40.487 --> 00:18:41.721
Where you from?
Where you from?

392
00:18:41.755 --> 00:18:45.191
But when he started
doing the bounce music,

393
00:18:45.225 --> 00:18:47.327
I'm like, "You know
how you're feeling

394
00:18:47.360 --> 00:18:50.196
with direction the Lord
see fit for you to take."

395
00:18:50.230 --> 00:18:52.499
I'm still gonna back him,
and I'm proud of him.

396
00:18:52.532 --> 00:18:54.300
- I love you, Mama.
- Love you, baby.

397
00:18:54.334 --> 00:18:56.503
I love you more than anything
in the world.

398
00:18:56.536 --> 00:18:57.437
I love you.

399
00:18:59.673 --> 00:19:01.675
My first performance
was at a block party

400
00:19:01.708 --> 00:19:03.309
off of Broad Street.

401
00:19:03.343 --> 00:19:04.978
***

402
00:19:05.011 --> 00:19:06.746
Jumped on a mic.

403
00:19:06.780 --> 00:19:09.349
Started, you know,
throwing out a few lyrics.

404
00:19:09.382 --> 00:19:10.583
Everybody sing.

405
00:19:10.617 --> 00:19:13.253
* I got passion,
and I sing songs *

406
00:19:13.286 --> 00:19:15.522
Crowd: * Somebody hold me,
and I'll sing songs *

407
00:19:15.555 --> 00:19:17.290
People started
losing their mind

408
00:19:17.323 --> 00:19:19.459
and started chanting
the lyrics.

409
00:19:21.528 --> 00:19:23.663
It was very much
a new experience

410
00:19:23.697 --> 00:19:24.764
and a new beginning for me.

411
00:19:24.798 --> 00:19:28.702
[ scat singing ]

412
00:19:30.337 --> 00:19:32.305
Uh-huh!

413
00:19:32.339 --> 00:19:34.274
[ air horn blows ]

414
00:19:34.307 --> 00:19:36.776
I'm the one and only
Big Freedia the Queen Diva,

415
00:19:36.810 --> 00:19:39.779
represented right here
from New Orleans, Louisiana.

416
00:19:39.813 --> 00:19:42.982
* You already know *

417
00:19:48.288 --> 00:19:50.757
You know, Adam was
our little hood guy

418
00:19:50.790 --> 00:19:51.725
in the family.

419
00:19:55.061 --> 00:19:57.530
I've heard different stories
of, you know,

420
00:19:57.564 --> 00:20:00.567
things that he's been
involved in--

421
00:20:00.600 --> 00:20:03.837
you know,
shooting at somebody before,

422
00:20:03.870 --> 00:20:06.706
wanting to sell drugs.

423
00:20:06.740 --> 00:20:09.275
Adam definitely had a gun,
and it was not legal.

424
00:20:10.677 --> 00:20:12.545
He had a gun
to protect himself,

425
00:20:12.579 --> 00:20:15.448
no telling from what or who.

426
00:20:15.482 --> 00:20:18.318
He wanted to be
a big dog in the neighborhood.

427
00:20:18.351 --> 00:20:20.687
He wanted people
to respect him

428
00:20:20.720 --> 00:20:24.357
like they respected
the other guys.

429
00:20:24.391 --> 00:20:29.295
Adam got stuck
in that mind frame

430
00:20:29.329 --> 00:20:31.564
of the Boyz in the Hood.

431
00:20:32.665 --> 00:20:34.334
They would get respect

432
00:20:34.367 --> 00:20:35.535
from people being
scared of them.

433
00:20:38.505 --> 00:20:39.606
You know, like,
a lot of times,

434
00:20:39.639 --> 00:20:41.474
they'll say to the police,

435
00:20:41.508 --> 00:20:42.742
"You wouldn't be
so big and bad

436
00:20:42.776 --> 00:20:45.612
if you didn't have that gun
and that badge."

437
00:20:45.645 --> 00:20:47.380
Same thing
with the hood boys--

438
00:20:47.414 --> 00:20:49.082
"You wouldn't be
so big and bad

439
00:20:49.115 --> 00:20:50.450
if you didn't have that gun."

440
00:20:51.518 --> 00:20:52.752
* Danger *

441
00:20:52.786 --> 00:20:55.755
That's what you call
stars and stripes.

442
00:20:55.789 --> 00:20:57.791
They want to get their stars
and their stripes

443
00:20:57.824 --> 00:20:59.626
from killing someone.

444
00:20:59.659 --> 00:21:02.362
And they're gonna say,
"Oh," you know,

445
00:21:02.395 --> 00:21:04.531
"I got two or three
under my belt,"

446
00:21:04.564 --> 00:21:06.366
like they're a big man

447
00:21:06.399 --> 00:21:07.600
or they're sticking
their chest out.

448
00:21:09.869 --> 00:21:12.572
Most of the time,
they're the coward.

449
00:21:12.605 --> 00:21:15.542
* Everywhere we go
is dangerous *

450
00:21:15.575 --> 00:21:17.544
* I'm so dangerous *

451
00:21:17.577 --> 00:21:19.746
Not knowing what people
are saying in the backdrop,

452
00:21:19.779 --> 00:21:23.650
like "Oh, this pussy
have to kill somebody"

453
00:21:23.683 --> 00:21:24.818
or "They're not a man
without a gun."

454
00:21:27.153 --> 00:21:29.389
We smother these boys
to death

455
00:21:29.422 --> 00:21:31.391
with our expectations

456
00:21:31.424 --> 00:21:33.360
of what a man can be.

457
00:21:33.393 --> 00:21:35.462
We keep telling them

458
00:21:35.495 --> 00:21:38.531
to be the crudest,
manliest madman

459
00:21:38.565 --> 00:21:40.333
ever to exist
in the planet ever.

460
00:21:42.569 --> 00:21:44.471
I've never lost anybody
to violence,

461
00:21:44.504 --> 00:21:47.107
and I keep trying
to wrap my head around

462
00:21:47.140 --> 00:21:50.143
somebody getting to the point
that you would kill someone

463
00:21:50.176 --> 00:21:52.679
and that that's part of life.

464
00:21:52.712 --> 00:21:54.681
I try to talk
to a lot of young people,

465
00:21:54.714 --> 00:21:56.750
try to get them
on the right path

466
00:21:56.783 --> 00:21:58.685
and change their mind
about, you know,

467
00:21:58.718 --> 00:22:00.887
just the nonsense that they'll
be wanting to go off on.

468
00:22:00.920 --> 00:22:03.456
But at the base of it,
is it like--

469
00:22:03.490 --> 00:22:04.891
is this, like, hopelessness?

470
00:22:04.924 --> 00:22:07.160
Like--Because if you believe
that you're gonna--

471
00:22:07.193 --> 00:22:08.595
your life is gonna be great,

472
00:22:08.628 --> 00:22:10.964
you believe
you're gonna be successful,

473
00:22:10.997 --> 00:22:14.734
you believe you're gonna
have your dreams in life,

474
00:22:14.768 --> 00:22:16.536
this is not the path you take.

475
00:22:18.204 --> 00:22:19.639
They want to say
that there's something broken

476
00:22:19.673 --> 00:22:20.674
about Blackness,

477
00:22:20.707 --> 00:22:22.509
and there's a deficiency

478
00:22:22.542 --> 00:22:24.678
in that culture.

479
00:22:24.711 --> 00:22:27.647
It's not. It's how human beings
behave when they're hurting.

480
00:22:27.681 --> 00:22:29.749
There's this whole other story

481
00:22:29.783 --> 00:22:33.853
that keeps ripping at the fabric
of Black families,

482
00:22:33.887 --> 00:22:36.156
ripping at the fabric
of Black communities.

483
00:22:36.189 --> 00:22:37.857
These young men
in New Orleans,

484
00:22:37.891 --> 00:22:40.593
most of them only have
their mom in their lives,

485
00:22:40.627 --> 00:22:42.629
and the mom only can do
so much,

486
00:22:42.662 --> 00:22:43.663
but she's out working,

487
00:22:43.697 --> 00:22:45.432
provide for all the children,

488
00:22:45.465 --> 00:22:46.733
she's trying
to take care of them.

489
00:22:46.766 --> 00:22:48.601
These dudes trying
to help their mama,

490
00:22:48.635 --> 00:22:50.170
so they're trying to hustle,
whatever they need to do

491
00:22:50.203 --> 00:22:52.439
to try to bring some money in.

492
00:22:52.472 --> 00:22:54.507
If that means
having to rob somebody

493
00:22:54.541 --> 00:22:55.542
or kill somebody.

494
00:22:55.575 --> 00:22:56.710
No one is responding

495
00:22:56.743 --> 00:22:58.611
to the gun violence issue

496
00:22:58.645 --> 00:23:00.513
- like it's an epidemic.
- No, they're not.

497
00:23:00.547 --> 00:23:01.715
Nobody.

498
00:23:01.748 --> 00:23:02.982
You know, one time
I had to sit down

499
00:23:03.016 --> 00:23:04.584
and really ask myself,

500
00:23:04.617 --> 00:23:06.586
"How many people do you know

501
00:23:06.619 --> 00:23:08.588
killed by gun violence?"

502
00:23:08.621 --> 00:23:10.457
It was between 60 to 70 people.

503
00:23:10.490 --> 00:23:12.025
Wow. So what does that do
to you?

504
00:23:12.058 --> 00:23:14.694
I mean, just spiritually,
on a personal level,

505
00:23:14.728 --> 00:23:16.196
what does that do to you?

506
00:23:16.229 --> 00:23:19.466
It makes me go
through a lot of emotions.

507
00:23:19.499 --> 00:23:21.835
You know, I've cried
a lot of times.

508
00:23:21.868 --> 00:23:24.204
It's such a repetitive thing
going here in New Orleans.

509
00:23:24.237 --> 00:23:25.805
That people don't
even pay attention to.

510
00:23:25.839 --> 00:23:27.240
- They don't.
- They only get excited

511
00:23:27.273 --> 00:23:29.909
when it is a mass shooting,

512
00:23:29.943 --> 00:23:33.246
which is generally happening
not to us, you know.

513
00:23:33.279 --> 00:23:34.681
Some kid walks
into a high school.

514
00:23:34.714 --> 00:23:36.216
- Of course.
- They--

515
00:23:36.249 --> 00:23:38.818
And that's all over the news
for a week and a half.

516
00:23:38.852 --> 00:23:40.553
Every day, this is happening,

517
00:23:40.587 --> 00:23:43.490
and nobody says
very much about it

518
00:23:43.523 --> 00:23:44.958
other than to beat up
on Black people,

519
00:23:44.991 --> 00:23:47.260
to say, "Well, you guys
can't handle your community"

520
00:23:47.293 --> 00:23:48.895
and Black people saying
"No, just help us."

521
00:23:48.928 --> 00:23:50.864
We have allowed
the Black community

522
00:23:50.897 --> 00:23:53.533
to be abused to such a degree.

523
00:23:53.566 --> 00:23:56.503
They're in constant
state of trauma,

524
00:23:56.536 --> 00:23:57.871
and they're--
they're human beings.

525
00:23:57.904 --> 00:23:59.572
They're responding to trauma.

526
00:23:59.606 --> 00:24:01.675
Society has to take
responsibility.

527
00:24:01.708 --> 00:24:03.677
When we had an AIDS crisis,

528
00:24:03.710 --> 00:24:04.978
when the government
wasn't responding,

529
00:24:05.011 --> 00:24:06.079
- people went in the streets.
- Yes.

530
00:24:06.112 --> 00:24:07.681
People harassed,

531
00:24:07.714 --> 00:24:09.049
people went
into government buildings.

532
00:24:09.082 --> 00:24:10.817
They were like,
"No, you will respond to this

533
00:24:10.850 --> 00:24:12.919
because I'm losing friend
after friend after friend."

534
00:24:12.952 --> 00:24:14.688
- Yes.
- Those were,

535
00:24:14.721 --> 00:24:17.991
at that time, mostly
creative white men.

536
00:24:18.024 --> 00:24:19.059
- Right.
- Who--

537
00:24:19.092 --> 00:24:20.960
And liberals in general

538
00:24:20.994 --> 00:24:22.696
did respond that way.

539
00:24:22.729 --> 00:24:24.297
That community mobilized
and said, "No,

540
00:24:24.330 --> 00:24:25.799
we won't have this.
Something has to be done."

541
00:24:25.832 --> 00:24:27.033
Yes.

542
00:24:27.067 --> 00:24:28.702
People like you
have the same story

543
00:24:28.735 --> 00:24:30.036
as those people
were having with ACT UP--

544
00:24:30.070 --> 00:24:31.738
"I'm losing friend
after friend after friend."

545
00:24:31.771 --> 00:24:33.740
- Yes.
- But the people most affected,

546
00:24:33.773 --> 00:24:35.709
they're not donating
to nobody campaign.

547
00:24:35.742 --> 00:24:36.743
- Right.
- They don't have money

548
00:24:36.776 --> 00:24:37.977
to do that.

549
00:24:38.011 --> 00:24:39.079
You have
these vulnerable people

550
00:24:39.112 --> 00:24:40.880
with no power,

551
00:24:40.914 --> 00:24:44.584
yelling to power,
"Help us,"

552
00:24:44.617 --> 00:24:46.619
And power keeps saying
"But you don't count."

553
00:24:51.725 --> 00:24:53.993
[ Dixieland playing ]

554
00:25:03.336 --> 00:25:05.572
When I first met Devin
at the school,

555
00:25:05.605 --> 00:25:07.841
he reminded me of Adam.

556
00:25:07.874 --> 00:25:11.611
His story was really
touching to me.

557
00:25:11.644 --> 00:25:13.747
I really wanted
to try to save Devin

558
00:25:13.780 --> 00:25:15.982
from losing him to the street

559
00:25:16.016 --> 00:25:17.817
'cause that's the direction
that he's headed in,

560
00:25:17.851 --> 00:25:20.887
wither in jail or dead.

561
00:25:20.920 --> 00:25:23.623
There's just a lot of beef
in New Orleans.

562
00:25:23.656 --> 00:25:25.859
I don't feel safe,
but at the same time,

563
00:25:25.892 --> 00:25:29.696
I don't want--like, I don't want
to move nowhere else

564
00:25:29.729 --> 00:25:30.897
from out of New Orleans.

565
00:25:30.930 --> 00:25:31.898
Like, I want to stay
in New Orleans.

566
00:25:31.931 --> 00:25:32.866
I don't know why.

567
00:25:35.135 --> 00:25:36.603
I'm just reckless right now.

568
00:25:50.684 --> 00:25:52.152
[ knock on door ]

569
00:25:52.185 --> 00:25:53.853
- Hi.
- Hey.

570
00:25:53.887 --> 00:25:54.954
What's up, Devin?

571
00:25:57.991 --> 00:25:59.693
- You've been all right?
- Yeah.

572
00:26:01.661 --> 00:26:02.796
So it's been rough.

573
00:26:02.829 --> 00:26:04.164
I've been hearing
some really rough stuff.

574
00:26:04.197 --> 00:26:06.366
Tell me what's going on.

575
00:26:11.805 --> 00:26:12.839
A lot of trouble.

576
00:26:17.143 --> 00:26:19.679
What's the reasons
that you're doing these things?

577
00:26:23.983 --> 00:26:24.984
Ashonta: How so?

578
00:26:26.086 --> 00:26:28.054
Is the stolen car associated

579
00:26:28.088 --> 00:26:29.723
with the Christmas Day
incident?

580
00:26:41.868 --> 00:26:43.770
So why was there a shooting,

581
00:26:43.803 --> 00:26:44.971
and why were you
the intended target?

582
00:27:03.256 --> 00:27:04.190
Why are y'all beefing?

583
00:27:28.915 --> 00:27:30.083
So it all started with a fight

584
00:27:30.116 --> 00:27:31.451
and kind of just snowballed
into a beef.

585
00:27:49.169 --> 00:27:51.004
You don't have to be cool
with him.

586
00:27:51.037 --> 00:27:53.173
Y'all don't have to speak
ever again.

587
00:27:53.206 --> 00:27:56.076
We just want the beef to stop
and squash it

588
00:27:56.109 --> 00:27:57.811
so neither one of y'all
are hurt.

589
00:28:01.014 --> 00:28:02.182
I really don't know.

590
00:28:05.218 --> 00:28:06.986
You can change your life
around,

591
00:28:07.020 --> 00:28:08.521
and we're here to help you.

592
00:28:08.555 --> 00:28:09.856
We're here to help your mom.

593
00:28:09.889 --> 00:28:11.224
We're here
to help your family.

594
00:28:13.126 --> 00:28:15.795
But Devin has to want it.

595
00:28:15.829 --> 00:28:18.798
In his mind it's
"I have to get you

596
00:28:18.832 --> 00:28:21.201
before you get me"
mentality,

597
00:28:21.234 --> 00:28:23.837
and that's not
just exclusive to Devin.

598
00:28:23.870 --> 00:28:25.805
It's not just exclusive
to New Orleans.

599
00:28:25.839 --> 00:28:29.776
It's exclusive to anybody
that has to survive.

600
00:28:29.809 --> 00:28:32.345
By and large, 14-year-olds
are not ducking gunshots

601
00:28:32.379 --> 00:28:36.349
and stealing cars
and running for their lives.

602
00:28:36.383 --> 00:28:38.952
That is not the kind of life
we want you to have.

603
00:28:38.985 --> 00:28:40.987
We surely want to see you
make it to 18--

604
00:28:41.021 --> 00:28:43.256
- We're not sure about you.
- ...and 28 and 38

605
00:28:43.289 --> 00:28:46.059
and 48. We want you
to see children.

606
00:28:46.092 --> 00:28:48.061
We want you
to see grandchildren.

607
00:28:50.830 --> 00:28:52.298
Is that the way
you want your mama to live,

608
00:28:52.332 --> 00:28:54.100
worrying about your safety
every day?

609
00:28:54.134 --> 00:28:56.169
So you have to open up
your mind.

610
00:29:22.295 --> 00:29:24.931
You're too young
to be in all this.

611
00:29:24.964 --> 00:29:26.933
You have so much potential.

612
00:29:26.966 --> 00:29:29.336
Your mom don't want to see you
lost to these streets.

613
00:29:29.369 --> 00:29:31.838
You understand
what I'm saying?

614
00:29:31.871 --> 00:29:32.939
Yeah, I understand
what you're saying.

615
00:29:32.972 --> 00:29:34.107
So can we come
to that resolution?

616
00:29:34.140 --> 00:29:35.942
Can we come to a point

617
00:29:35.975 --> 00:29:37.077
where we can throw in
the white flag

618
00:29:37.110 --> 00:29:38.278
and there's no death?

619
00:29:38.311 --> 00:29:39.879
You stay on your side,
I stay on mine.

620
00:29:39.913 --> 00:29:41.247
We don't have to be friendly,

621
00:29:41.281 --> 00:29:44.017
but we don't have to be
fatal enemies, either.

622
00:29:44.050 --> 00:29:45.618
I don't know.

623
00:29:45.652 --> 00:29:48.922
I'm not worried
about the dude.

624
00:29:48.955 --> 00:29:51.624
Okay. We know you're not
worried about the dude,

625
00:29:51.658 --> 00:29:52.926
but will you give it
some thought?

626
00:29:55.128 --> 00:29:56.930
Can you agree to that?

627
00:29:56.963 --> 00:29:58.998
That's the very least
we're asking you to do.

628
00:29:59.032 --> 00:30:01.067
- Just think about it?
- Yeah, I agree to that.

629
00:30:02.335 --> 00:30:04.404
- I can think about it.
- Hmm?

630
00:30:04.437 --> 00:30:06.406
Yeah, I can think about it.

631
00:30:06.439 --> 00:30:09.075
- We appreciate it.
- That's your word?

632
00:30:10.310 --> 00:30:12.212
- Hmm?
- Yeah, that's my word.

633
00:30:15.348 --> 00:30:17.117
This is bigger than Devin.

634
00:30:17.150 --> 00:30:20.320
This is about every child
that looks like Devin.

635
00:30:20.353 --> 00:30:22.956
Devin is almost the blueprint

636
00:30:22.989 --> 00:30:28.461
for what happens
when you starve a child

637
00:30:28.495 --> 00:30:32.132
of the necessary things
that help them to grow.

638
00:30:32.165 --> 00:30:34.200
Like, it's like a plant.
If you don't water it,

639
00:30:34.234 --> 00:30:36.403
if you don't give it
the nourishment that it needs,

640
00:30:36.436 --> 00:30:38.338
it will eventually
wither away and die.

641
00:30:38.371 --> 00:30:41.041
Charles Blow:
We failed our boys.

642
00:30:41.074 --> 00:30:44.944
So yes, tell that boy
this is not the answer.

643
00:30:44.978 --> 00:30:46.646
Violence is not the answer.

644
00:30:46.680 --> 00:30:49.082
Taking a life
is not the answer.

645
00:30:49.115 --> 00:30:51.351
But he does not exist
on an island.

646
00:30:51.384 --> 00:30:53.186
He does not exist
in a bubble.

647
00:30:53.219 --> 00:30:55.088
He exists
in a cultural context

648
00:30:55.121 --> 00:30:58.024
that you created, America.

649
00:30:58.058 --> 00:30:59.125
Your responsibility.

650
00:31:06.166 --> 00:31:08.134
<i>[ police radio chatter ]</i>

651
00:31:10.303 --> 00:31:12.939
Bryan: We have built
the country's largest

652
00:31:12.972 --> 00:31:14.974
high definition
network crime camera program

653
00:31:15.008 --> 00:31:16.142
in the United States.

654
00:31:16.176 --> 00:31:18.278
It's all powered 100%
by citizens.

655
00:31:21.414 --> 00:31:23.016
The cameras--
we provide loaners--

656
00:31:23.049 --> 00:31:24.417
are in people's homes
and businesses.

657
00:31:29.155 --> 00:31:30.490
We've been involved
in pretty much

658
00:31:30.523 --> 00:31:32.058
anything you can imagine--

659
00:31:32.092 --> 00:31:32.926
shootings, stabbings,
home invasions,

660
00:31:32.959 --> 00:31:34.728
rapes, robberies,
thefts, burglaries,

661
00:31:34.761 --> 00:31:36.396
hit-and-runs--
and the cameras are so good,

662
00:31:36.429 --> 00:31:38.164
we're able to, a lot of times,

663
00:31:38.198 --> 00:31:39.499
blow up the camera video

664
00:31:39.532 --> 00:31:41.134
and tell the difference

665
00:31:41.167 --> 00:31:43.036
between crack, heroin,
marijuana.

666
00:31:43.069 --> 00:31:44.137
Freedia: Oh, wow.

667
00:31:45.305 --> 00:31:46.706
This is a typical shooting,

668
00:31:46.740 --> 00:31:49.409
so you have a intended
target right here.

669
00:31:49.442 --> 00:31:51.745
You have another
intended target over there.

670
00:31:51.778 --> 00:31:54.481
You have a person
with an AR15 machine pistol,

671
00:31:54.514 --> 00:31:56.182
and then you had two people

672
00:31:56.216 --> 00:31:58.284
on the opposite side
of the vehicle with pistols.

673
00:32:00.754 --> 00:32:02.288
And, as he drove
down the street...

674
00:32:04.224 --> 00:32:05.725
there's children nearby.

675
00:32:07.560 --> 00:32:09.162
Now, we had cameras
around the corner,

676
00:32:09.195 --> 00:32:11.164
and we were actually
watching these children.

677
00:32:11.197 --> 00:32:13.133
They were getting off the bus.
They were happy.

678
00:32:13.166 --> 00:32:14.200
And the next thing you know...

679
00:32:15.268 --> 00:32:16.436
[ children screaming ]

680
00:32:16.469 --> 00:32:18.405
...automatic gunfire.

681
00:32:18.438 --> 00:32:20.040
We can tell
from the muzzle flash,

682
00:32:20.073 --> 00:32:21.241
like a trigger pull,

683
00:32:21.274 --> 00:32:23.209
that was fully automatic.

684
00:32:23.243 --> 00:32:24.744
They basically
opened up that person

685
00:32:24.778 --> 00:32:26.146
at point blank range.

686
00:32:26.179 --> 00:32:28.281
Unbelievable.

687
00:32:28.314 --> 00:32:32.052
Over here we have the murder
of Brayanta Ketchens,

688
00:32:32.085 --> 00:32:34.554
21-year-old early childhood
development student.

689
00:32:34.587 --> 00:32:37.424
One day, while she was taking
a shower in her bathroom,

690
00:32:37.457 --> 00:32:40.460
five people went,
kicked in her window,

691
00:32:40.493 --> 00:32:43.363
and...they shot her dead.

692
00:32:43.396 --> 00:32:46.066
And not only did we
help prove who did it,

693
00:32:46.099 --> 00:32:49.035
the five people
who were involved in that,

694
00:32:49.069 --> 00:32:50.503
well, you can tell,

695
00:32:50.537 --> 00:32:52.372
and this is gonna be
State Exhibit "A,"

696
00:32:52.405 --> 00:32:56.009
this is the smile
on their faces as they left.

697
00:32:57.377 --> 00:32:59.779
That's just after
they killed Brayanta.

698
00:33:01.548 --> 00:33:03.550
Wow. I sure would like to know

699
00:33:03.583 --> 00:33:05.218
if you can pull up
a certain day

700
00:33:05.251 --> 00:33:08.221
when my brother was killed.

701
00:33:08.254 --> 00:33:10.490
So we didn't have any cameras
in the immediate area.

702
00:33:12.659 --> 00:33:15.295
We had some a distance away,

703
00:33:15.328 --> 00:33:17.397
but we went for what we call
a needle in a haystack.

704
00:33:17.430 --> 00:33:18.832
Sometimes it works.

705
00:33:18.865 --> 00:33:21.101
On that day,
we just couldn't find anything

706
00:33:21.134 --> 00:33:24.170
that we could possibly use
to help the detectives,

707
00:33:24.204 --> 00:33:26.239
and that's what frustrates us
to no end

708
00:33:26.272 --> 00:33:29.509
is when the bad things happen
and we cannot assist.

709
00:33:29.542 --> 00:33:30.477
Right.

710
00:33:36.483 --> 00:33:39.219
We are a city,
we are a country

711
00:33:39.252 --> 00:33:42.122
that is drunk on violence.

712
00:33:42.155 --> 00:33:43.323
<i>Newscaster: Police responded</i>

713
00:33:43.356 --> 00:33:45.325
<i>to an initial call</i>
<i>of shots fired</i>

714
00:33:45.358 --> 00:33:47.327
<i>at the intersection</i>
<i>of Felicity and Sophie Wright.</i>

715
00:33:47.360 --> 00:33:48.561
<i>15 minutes later,</i>

716
00:33:48.595 --> 00:33:50.830
<i>Will Smith</i>
<i>was pronounced dead.</i>

717
00:33:50.864 --> 00:33:52.565
<i>Newscaster #2:</i>
<i>Police claiming</i>

718
00:33:52.599 --> 00:33:55.335
<i>that 28-year-old Hayes</i>
<i>shot Smith several times.</i>

719
00:33:55.368 --> 00:33:56.569
<i>Newscaster #3: Cardell Hayes</i>
<i>was found guilty</i>

720
00:33:56.603 --> 00:33:58.138
<i>of manslaughter</i>

721
00:33:58.171 --> 00:33:59.539
<i>for the shooting death</i>
<i>of Smith</i>

722
00:33:59.572 --> 00:34:01.508
<i>in a road rage incident</i>
<i>in New Orleans.</i>

723
00:34:01.541 --> 00:34:03.410
<i>Hayes said</i>
<i>it was self-defense,</i>

724
00:34:03.443 --> 00:34:05.345
<i>but the jury rejected that.</i>

725
00:34:05.378 --> 00:34:07.414
In the heart of our city,

726
00:34:07.447 --> 00:34:10.450
Will Smith was shot and killed.

727
00:34:10.483 --> 00:34:12.152
His death leaves a wife alone,

728
00:34:12.185 --> 00:34:14.154
three children
without a father.

729
00:34:14.187 --> 00:34:16.656
On the other side of the gun
is Cardell Hayes.

730
00:34:16.690 --> 00:34:19.559
He's in jail,
but he has a family, too.

731
00:34:22.562 --> 00:34:23.697
My cousin Cardell,

732
00:34:23.730 --> 00:34:25.432
we call him Bear

733
00:34:25.465 --> 00:34:28.902
because he's like a big, soft,
cuddly teddy bear--

734
00:34:28.935 --> 00:34:31.304
he's a real sweet.

735
00:34:31.338 --> 00:34:34.240
He was always there for me.

736
00:34:34.274 --> 00:34:35.575
Growing up as a child,

737
00:34:35.608 --> 00:34:37.477
he was the sweetest young man.

738
00:34:37.510 --> 00:34:40.580
I lost my brother
and my cousin

739
00:34:40.613 --> 00:34:43.249
to senseless violence.

740
00:34:43.283 --> 00:34:44.617
They were like brothers.

741
00:34:44.651 --> 00:34:46.619
Dawn: Adam always
used to call Cardell

742
00:34:46.653 --> 00:34:48.355
his little big brother

743
00:34:48.388 --> 00:34:51.157
because Cardell was
so much bigger than him,

744
00:34:51.191 --> 00:34:54.294
so he would say
his little big brother.

745
00:34:54.327 --> 00:34:55.595
And they were real close.

746
00:35:07.640 --> 00:35:11.411
It was lots of police
that shot him down

747
00:35:11.444 --> 00:35:13.380
right after the trial.

748
00:35:13.413 --> 00:35:14.481
<i>Anthony Hayes,</i>
<i>armed with a knife</i>

749
00:35:14.514 --> 00:35:15.715
<i>on St. Charles Avenue,</i>

750
00:35:15.749 --> 00:35:17.751
<i>was surrounded</i>
<i>by 16 officers</i>

751
00:35:17.784 --> 00:35:20.186
<i>to keep him from hurting</i>
<i>nearby onlookers.</i>

752
00:35:20.220 --> 00:35:21.488
He had a breakdown,

753
00:35:21.521 --> 00:35:24.190
and he was killed
by the policemen.

754
00:35:24.224 --> 00:35:25.525
<i>Once officers arrived,</i>

755
00:35:25.558 --> 00:35:28.328
<i>the situation lasted</i>
<i>just over three minutes.</i>

756
00:35:28.361 --> 00:35:30.196
<i>Officers tried</i>
<i>to talk him down,</i>

757
00:35:30.230 --> 00:35:31.965
<i>used pepper spray,</i>

758
00:35:31.998 --> 00:35:33.667
<i>and at one point</i>
<i>contemplated tackling him.</i>

759
00:35:33.700 --> 00:35:35.635
Mr. Hayes raised a knife

760
00:35:35.669 --> 00:35:37.504
in an attempt to stab
one of the officers,

761
00:35:37.537 --> 00:35:39.939
at which time
three other officers fired.

762
00:35:47.414 --> 00:35:49.582
<i>There is a question</i>
<i>on whether officers</i>

763
00:35:49.616 --> 00:35:51.651
<i>could have shot</i>
<i>and wounded Hayes,</i>

764
00:35:51.685 --> 00:35:54.788
<i>but Riley says officers are</i>
<i>no longer trained to do that.</i>

765
00:35:54.821 --> 00:35:56.523
It really hurt Cardell

766
00:35:56.556 --> 00:35:58.958
because he loved his daddy,
you know.

767
00:35:58.992 --> 00:36:00.427
Even though
we wasn't together,

768
00:36:00.460 --> 00:36:02.696
his daddy was active
in his life.

769
00:36:02.729 --> 00:36:05.398
Even with his illness
that he was going through,

770
00:36:05.432 --> 00:36:07.701
he still was very active
in his life.

771
00:36:29.322 --> 00:36:31.558
I believe that the trauma

772
00:36:31.591 --> 00:36:35.428
to the collective Black body

773
00:36:35.462 --> 00:36:38.698
is born in this country
in enslavement

774
00:36:38.732 --> 00:36:40.400
and has never stopped.

775
00:36:45.505 --> 00:36:47.040
As soon as you get
the civil rights,

776
00:36:47.073 --> 00:36:50.276
when you think
we're in a new era,

777
00:36:50.310 --> 00:36:53.513
you start to see
mass incarceration creep up.

778
00:36:53.546 --> 00:36:56.449
And everything Jim Crow did

779
00:36:56.483 --> 00:36:58.852
mass incarceration just does
under a different name.

780
00:36:58.885 --> 00:37:00.720
All the lynching the happened,

781
00:37:00.754 --> 00:37:04.624
the death penalty just brings
the killing inside.

782
00:37:04.657 --> 00:37:09.396
We know that mass incarceration
is vastly disproportionately

783
00:37:09.429 --> 00:37:10.497
affected by people.

784
00:37:10.530 --> 00:37:11.865
For the same crime,

785
00:37:11.898 --> 00:37:14.567
the Black person's getting
a much longer sentence

786
00:37:14.601 --> 00:37:16.302
on average
than the white person.

787
00:37:16.336 --> 00:37:17.637
That's a system problem.

788
00:37:20.373 --> 00:37:22.475
My name is Darren Hayes,

789
00:37:22.509 --> 00:37:25.078
but my friends and associates
call me Combray.

790
00:37:25.111 --> 00:37:28.515
I'm the Lifers Association
President here at Elayn Hunt...

791
00:37:30.517 --> 00:37:34.354
where I've been incarcerated
for the last 25 years.

792
00:37:34.387 --> 00:37:36.489
I'm here on a homicide,

793
00:37:36.523 --> 00:37:38.324
so that's second degree murder,

794
00:37:38.358 --> 00:37:40.493
and that eventually led
to a life sentence.

795
00:37:40.527 --> 00:37:43.363
We have some young offenders.

796
00:37:43.396 --> 00:37:45.398
Look like the younger, they're
coming in off the street.

797
00:37:45.432 --> 00:37:48.068
They're coming off the street
with these problems.

798
00:37:48.101 --> 00:37:50.904
So we came up with the idea,
why not bring some people in

799
00:37:50.937 --> 00:37:54.474
who maybe can tell these guys
some things

800
00:37:54.507 --> 00:37:55.608
and make them look
at their self in the mirror.

801
00:38:05.418 --> 00:38:07.520
Good afternoon.
How's everybody doing?

802
00:38:07.554 --> 00:38:08.755
- [ murmuring ]
- Good.

803
00:38:08.788 --> 00:38:10.423
My name is Charles Pattman.

804
00:38:10.457 --> 00:38:12.826
I'm from the Wilson-Wooddale
Funeral Home.

805
00:38:12.859 --> 00:38:14.661
I just want
to take a few minutes

806
00:38:14.694 --> 00:38:17.664
just to share with you
what actually goes on

807
00:38:17.697 --> 00:38:20.900
after you have gone out there
and you've OD'd on drugs,

808
00:38:20.934 --> 00:38:24.371
when your homeboy decides
to shoot someone.

809
00:38:24.404 --> 00:38:26.139
So I just want to share
a perspective with you

810
00:38:26.172 --> 00:38:27.774
that is real.

811
00:38:27.807 --> 00:38:30.577
I've seen a bullet
straight through the heart.

812
00:38:30.610 --> 00:38:31.911
I've seen a bullet

813
00:38:31.945 --> 00:38:33.646
straight through
one side of your head

814
00:38:33.680 --> 00:38:35.482
and come out the other one.

815
00:38:35.515 --> 00:38:37.784
I've seen them when they put
that gun under your chin

816
00:38:37.817 --> 00:38:39.486
and just blew
half of your face off.

817
00:38:39.519 --> 00:38:40.553
We've seen it.

818
00:38:40.587 --> 00:38:42.489
So now we got to deal with it.

819
00:38:42.522 --> 00:38:43.823
Darren:
And it's another animal,

820
00:38:43.857 --> 00:38:46.459
the young guys that I see
come to jail today.

821
00:38:46.493 --> 00:38:49.129
Back when I came,
we had reasons, we thought.

822
00:38:49.162 --> 00:38:51.798
Even though they was
wrong reasons to do things,

823
00:38:51.831 --> 00:38:53.466
we had reasons.

824
00:38:53.500 --> 00:38:55.468
But young guys that I see
come to jail today,

825
00:38:55.502 --> 00:38:57.404
they don't know.
They're just doing things

826
00:38:57.437 --> 00:38:58.938
because peer pressure,

827
00:38:58.972 --> 00:39:00.707
just wanting to be down.

828
00:39:00.740 --> 00:39:02.776
What you did it for?
"I don't know.

829
00:39:02.809 --> 00:39:04.711
I don't know why I did it."

830
00:39:04.744 --> 00:39:06.579
Just because
he got away with it,

831
00:39:06.613 --> 00:39:07.947
you think you can
get away with it.

832
00:39:07.981 --> 00:39:09.749
It don't work that way.

833
00:39:09.783 --> 00:39:12.786
You got to free yourself,

834
00:39:12.819 --> 00:39:15.422
each and every one of you.

835
00:39:15.455 --> 00:39:17.824
You get out of here
this afternoon,

836
00:39:17.857 --> 00:39:21.594
you find the nearest mirror,
and you look in it.

837
00:39:21.628 --> 00:39:23.963
And you say to yourself,
"I am where I am

838
00:39:23.997 --> 00:39:26.599
because of the decision
that I made."

839
00:39:26.633 --> 00:39:28.735
And once you can look
in that mirror

840
00:39:28.768 --> 00:39:31.438
and say "I am where I am
because of the decision I made,"

841
00:39:31.471 --> 00:39:33.006
you are free
because at that point

842
00:39:33.039 --> 00:39:36.176
you can start moving
in the right direction.

843
00:39:36.209 --> 00:39:38.578
Darren:
You got some good guys here.

844
00:39:38.611 --> 00:39:41.014
You got some guys
that just slipped one time.

845
00:39:41.047 --> 00:39:42.615
You know, there's a thin line

846
00:39:42.649 --> 00:39:44.484
between where I'm
sitting at today

847
00:39:44.517 --> 00:39:46.619
and where you're at right now.

848
00:39:46.653 --> 00:39:48.888
Personally, me, myself,

849
00:39:48.922 --> 00:39:50.490
I was selfish.

850
00:39:50.523 --> 00:39:51.658
I hurt a lot of people,

851
00:39:51.691 --> 00:39:55.495
and...right now,

852
00:39:55.528 --> 00:39:59.766
I never been as high
as when you help somebody.

853
00:39:59.799 --> 00:40:01.634
And there's nothing
like looking at somebody

854
00:40:01.668 --> 00:40:04.904
you just helped
or you just saved his life

855
00:40:04.938 --> 00:40:06.740
from making a bad decision,

856
00:40:06.773 --> 00:40:08.475
and...

857
00:40:08.508 --> 00:40:09.876
it looks like
the more you do that,

858
00:40:09.909 --> 00:40:11.778
the more you want to do that.

859
00:40:11.811 --> 00:40:13.780
Our next speaker

860
00:40:13.813 --> 00:40:16.049
keep the party jumping.

861
00:40:16.082 --> 00:40:17.784
Bounce music live

862
00:40:17.817 --> 00:40:19.552
from the Party Bus,

863
00:40:19.586 --> 00:40:21.921
from the Splash,
from the Picnic,

864
00:40:21.955 --> 00:40:23.990
even before I got busted.

865
00:40:24.024 --> 00:40:25.725
I'm gonna bring you
Freddie Ross,

866
00:40:25.759 --> 00:40:27.827
known as Big Freedia,

867
00:40:27.861 --> 00:40:29.562
to come enlighten us

868
00:40:29.596 --> 00:40:30.997
about how he living his life.

869
00:40:34.734 --> 00:40:35.935
Make it plain.

870
00:40:41.107 --> 00:40:42.909
Good evening.

871
00:40:42.942 --> 00:40:44.611
How are y'all doing today?

872
00:40:44.644 --> 00:40:46.513
[ murmuring ]

873
00:40:46.546 --> 00:40:48.648
You all know me
as Big Freedia the Queen Diva.

874
00:40:48.682 --> 00:40:50.050
You best believe her.

875
00:40:50.083 --> 00:40:51.551
[ laughter ]

876
00:40:51.584 --> 00:40:52.819
Thank y'all so much.

877
00:40:52.852 --> 00:40:54.821
Thank you, Warden Stagg,
for having me.

878
00:40:54.854 --> 00:40:57.824
Thank you, my cousin Cardell,
for calling me.

879
00:40:57.857 --> 00:41:00.960
So I've been going around
talking to many, many people,

880
00:41:00.994 --> 00:41:03.563
and I say, "You know what?
I have a platform,

881
00:41:03.596 --> 00:41:05.632
and I need to use it
as much as I can."

882
00:41:05.665 --> 00:41:07.734
[ applause ]

883
00:41:07.767 --> 00:41:10.603
God gave me a gift
to be able to touch people

884
00:41:10.637 --> 00:41:12.005
and reach people
through music,

885
00:41:12.038 --> 00:41:13.973
but I also have a voice.

886
00:41:14.007 --> 00:41:15.675
I speak for a lot
of different people

887
00:41:15.709 --> 00:41:16.943
who can't speak up.

888
00:41:16.976 --> 00:41:18.878
The most important thing is

889
00:41:18.912 --> 00:41:21.848
touching this young generation.

890
00:41:21.881 --> 00:41:24.851
These children are really
a lost generation,

891
00:41:24.884 --> 00:41:27.787
and it's gonna take
one person at a time

892
00:41:27.821 --> 00:41:29.656
to help change that.

893
00:41:29.689 --> 00:41:31.858
And you gentlemen out here,

894
00:41:31.891 --> 00:41:33.326
y'all can help
make a difference

895
00:41:33.360 --> 00:41:34.661
'cause they're looking
at y'all.

896
00:41:34.694 --> 00:41:35.729
They're looking
at their brothers.

897
00:41:35.762 --> 00:41:36.963
They're looking at their uncles.

898
00:41:36.996 --> 00:41:39.099
They're looking at their--
their cousins

899
00:41:39.132 --> 00:41:42.836
and saying, "You know,
yeah, my cousin in jail.

900
00:41:42.869 --> 00:41:45.105
He did such-and-such.
My cousin known for this."

901
00:41:45.138 --> 00:41:47.741
They think it's a game.
They think it's--

902
00:41:47.774 --> 00:41:49.776
it's--it's something
to, like, live off

903
00:41:49.809 --> 00:41:51.845
and feel good about.

904
00:41:51.878 --> 00:41:54.080
How many people y'all think
be affected

905
00:41:54.114 --> 00:41:55.949
by the things that y'all do?

906
00:41:55.982 --> 00:41:57.817
Your whole family.

907
00:41:57.851 --> 00:41:59.886
We don't want to see y'all
in here,

908
00:41:59.919 --> 00:42:03.623
especially it's too many
brothers gone off the street.

909
00:42:03.656 --> 00:42:05.625
And so many women out there.

910
00:42:05.658 --> 00:42:07.627
It's like five women
to every man.

911
00:42:07.660 --> 00:42:09.629
Don't y'all want to see
all them beautiful women?

912
00:42:09.662 --> 00:42:11.031
[ murmuring ]

913
00:42:11.064 --> 00:42:12.766
Y'all got to get out of here,
then.

914
00:42:12.799 --> 00:42:13.867
Man: All right.

915
00:42:13.900 --> 00:42:15.135
Y'all got to get out of here.

916
00:42:15.168 --> 00:42:17.871
They're waiting
for a Black, strong brother

917
00:42:17.904 --> 00:42:19.773
to get out of here

918
00:42:19.806 --> 00:42:21.675
and do something different
with themselves.

919
00:42:21.708 --> 00:42:22.942
I want to know
what y'all have learned

920
00:42:22.976 --> 00:42:24.911
while y'all been in this place

921
00:42:24.944 --> 00:42:29.182
and what are you gonna do
to change when you get out.

922
00:42:29.215 --> 00:42:32.752
- Good evening.
- How are you?

923
00:42:32.786 --> 00:42:36.356
I notice that most of us
dance around the problem.

924
00:42:40.694 --> 00:42:42.629
It's the slave mentality.

925
00:42:42.662 --> 00:42:44.197
[ one man claps ]

926
00:42:44.230 --> 00:42:46.666
That's the problem.
That's the heart of the problem.

927
00:42:46.700 --> 00:42:49.969
We are inclined to do
the things that we do.

928
00:42:50.003 --> 00:42:52.939
We don't feel like there's
anything else we can do.

929
00:42:52.972 --> 00:42:55.075
There's a lot of us
that are afraid to change

930
00:42:55.108 --> 00:42:57.944
because they think
it makes them weaker.

931
00:42:57.977 --> 00:42:59.112
Man: Right.

932
00:43:01.448 --> 00:43:04.718
How you doing?
My name is Kenneth West.

933
00:43:04.751 --> 00:43:08.154
I started using heroin
when I was 16 years old.

934
00:43:08.188 --> 00:43:11.991
I watch young men come in now
into the system

935
00:43:12.025 --> 00:43:16.863
who have been sold
into a misconception of life.

936
00:43:16.896 --> 00:43:19.766
Identification is lost.

937
00:43:19.799 --> 00:43:22.435
You've been mistaught.

938
00:43:22.469 --> 00:43:25.772
You're undertrained,
undergirded.

939
00:43:25.805 --> 00:43:28.742
But here's where I'm at,
Ms. Freedia.

940
00:43:28.775 --> 00:43:34.848
What we can do is we can try
to re-facilitate to them

941
00:43:34.881 --> 00:43:38.051
what the role of masculinity
really is

942
00:43:38.084 --> 00:43:41.454
and what is our role
in family,

943
00:43:41.488 --> 00:43:45.025
relationship, community,
and church.

944
00:43:45.058 --> 00:43:48.161
I'm asking you to grow up,

945
00:43:48.194 --> 00:43:52.198
grow up into a mentality
that becomes men.

946
00:43:52.232 --> 00:43:54.134
God bless you.

947
00:43:54.167 --> 00:43:55.135
Yes, sir.

948
00:43:57.771 --> 00:43:59.439
Thank you to all of the people
that made it possible

949
00:43:59.472 --> 00:44:01.041
for me to be here today.

950
00:44:01.074 --> 00:44:03.777
I'm the one and only
Big Freedia the Queen Diva.

951
00:44:03.810 --> 00:44:05.879
* You already know *

952
00:44:05.912 --> 00:44:08.715
Choir: * Ain't nobody *

953
00:44:08.748 --> 00:44:10.283
* Do me like Jesus *

954
00:44:10.316 --> 00:44:12.886
* There ain't nobody *

955
00:44:12.919 --> 00:44:14.988
* Do me like the Lord *

956
00:44:15.021 --> 00:44:17.223
* There ain't nobody *

957
00:44:17.257 --> 00:44:19.259
* Do me like Jesus *

958
00:44:19.292 --> 00:44:22.762
* He's my friend *

959
00:44:22.796 --> 00:44:23.897
There ain't nobody. Let's go!

960
00:44:23.930 --> 00:44:26.966
* There ain't nobody *

961
00:44:27.000 --> 00:44:28.468
* Do me like Jesus *

962
00:44:28.501 --> 00:44:31.237
* There ain't nobody *

963
00:44:31.271 --> 00:44:33.173
* Do me like the Lord *

964
00:44:33.206 --> 00:44:36.176
* There ain't nobody *

965
00:44:36.209 --> 00:44:38.011
* Do me like Jesus *

966
00:44:38.044 --> 00:44:42.048
* He's my friend *

967
00:44:42.082 --> 00:44:44.951
I never thought I would be
carrying a gun.

968
00:44:44.984 --> 00:44:47.053
I was, you know,
I grew up in a church.

969
00:44:47.087 --> 00:44:48.922
I was a choir girl.

970
00:44:48.955 --> 00:44:51.224
* Suddenly you are no more *

971
00:44:51.257 --> 00:44:52.959
* Suddenly... *

972
00:44:52.992 --> 00:44:55.161
I went to Sunday school
every Sunday.

973
00:44:55.195 --> 00:44:56.796
* ...ore *

974
00:44:56.830 --> 00:44:58.198
* Suddenly you are... *

975
00:44:58.231 --> 00:45:01.067
But I also didn't ever think
that I would be shot

976
00:45:01.101 --> 00:45:02.302
and have to protect myself.

977
00:45:02.335 --> 00:45:04.971
* ...you are no more *

978
00:45:05.005 --> 00:45:07.040
Things happen in your life

979
00:45:07.073 --> 00:45:11.311
that make you change
your whole outlook on life.

980
00:45:17.317 --> 00:45:19.552
It was late night.

981
00:45:19.586 --> 00:45:22.222
Bringing one of the girls
that I was cool with

982
00:45:22.255 --> 00:45:25.258
home from the club.

983
00:45:25.291 --> 00:45:29.329
As we were turning right here
onto Orleans Avenue,

984
00:45:29.362 --> 00:45:32.899
the police had a car
pulled over right here.

985
00:45:32.932 --> 00:45:35.835
So I remember that
because the lights was on.

986
00:45:35.869 --> 00:45:39.305
And what I did was
I turned here on this street.

987
00:45:43.009 --> 00:45:47.847
I dropped her off to her house
which was on this side.

988
00:45:47.881 --> 00:45:51.184
And as I'm going
around the curb,

989
00:45:51.217 --> 00:45:54.120
there's a dude standing
in the middle of the driveway

990
00:45:54.154 --> 00:45:56.056
just in front of my car.

991
00:45:56.089 --> 00:45:58.558
I'm like, "What is this?
What is he tripping out?"

992
00:45:58.591 --> 00:46:00.026
His eyes were, like,
super big.

993
00:46:01.594 --> 00:46:03.863
I waited for a moment.

994
00:46:03.897 --> 00:46:05.799
When he moved to the side...

995
00:46:08.201 --> 00:46:09.936
all I heard was gunshots.

996
00:46:13.340 --> 00:46:15.008
When the window shattered,

997
00:46:15.041 --> 00:46:17.110
I got hit with my first bullet.

998
00:46:17.143 --> 00:46:20.380
And when I realized,
I started ducking.

999
00:46:20.413 --> 00:46:25.885
I put my hand up like this
to cover the back of my head,

1000
00:46:25.919 --> 00:46:27.087
and thank God I did.

1001
00:46:27.120 --> 00:46:28.988
Bullet got, you know,

1002
00:46:29.022 --> 00:46:31.257
jammed right here in my wrist.

1003
00:46:31.291 --> 00:46:33.159
So thank God
for putting up my hand

1004
00:46:33.193 --> 00:46:35.628
because if I hadn't
have put up my hand,

1005
00:46:35.662 --> 00:46:38.131
I would have been shot
in the back of my head.

1006
00:46:38.164 --> 00:46:40.433
I can remember
driving off real fast,

1007
00:46:40.467 --> 00:46:41.901
and I slammed into another car,

1008
00:46:41.935 --> 00:46:44.104
and I turned out the driveway.

1009
00:46:44.137 --> 00:46:46.639
I went right back
down the street

1010
00:46:46.673 --> 00:46:49.042
to the same police
that had the vehicle stopped

1011
00:46:49.075 --> 00:46:50.310
two blocks up the street,

1012
00:46:50.343 --> 00:46:52.112
and I pulled up to the police,

1013
00:46:52.145 --> 00:46:54.080
and I said, "I've been shot."

1014
00:46:58.251 --> 00:47:01.121
I remember blacking out
after I told him I got shot.

1015
00:47:03.356 --> 00:47:05.658
I was very terrified.

1016
00:47:05.692 --> 00:47:07.961
This person was still
out on the streets.

1017
00:47:07.994 --> 00:47:10.096
You know,
I remembered his face.

1018
00:47:10.130 --> 00:47:11.431
Why did he do this to me?

1019
00:47:11.464 --> 00:47:13.233
Was he trying to rob me?

1020
00:47:13.266 --> 00:47:16.036
Or was he trying to make
a name for his self?

1021
00:47:16.069 --> 00:47:18.038
Was he trying
to put one under his belt?

1022
00:47:20.373 --> 00:47:22.208
And my mom was like,

1023
00:47:22.242 --> 00:47:24.444
"You're not gonna be
captivated in your own city

1024
00:47:24.477 --> 00:47:25.645
in your own house."

1025
00:47:29.049 --> 00:47:32.052
The only way for me to feel
safe to get out of the house

1026
00:47:32.085 --> 00:47:34.654
was to carry a gun.

1027
00:47:35.488 --> 00:47:39.125
I went, and I had to fill out
all type of paperwork,

1028
00:47:39.159 --> 00:47:42.996
and they did
the background check.

1029
00:47:43.029 --> 00:47:45.031
That's the only way
that I felt safe--

1030
00:47:45.065 --> 00:47:48.234
that I had something
to protect myself now.

1031
00:47:48.268 --> 00:47:50.470
I was never out
to harm anybody.

1032
00:47:50.503 --> 00:47:52.939
I was out
to just protect myself

1033
00:47:52.972 --> 00:47:54.341
if push came to shove.

1034
00:47:54.374 --> 00:47:55.475
And, um--

1035
00:47:57.510 --> 00:47:58.978
Still didn't get it.
All right.

1036
00:48:03.249 --> 00:48:04.684
A lot of New Orleans
bounce artists

1037
00:48:04.718 --> 00:48:06.119
died too early,

1038
00:48:06.152 --> 00:48:08.221
and their legacy become
"They're dead,"

1039
00:48:08.254 --> 00:48:11.024
and I never wanted that
to be me.

1040
00:48:11.057 --> 00:48:13.960
Magnolia Shorty
was my friend.

1041
00:48:15.061 --> 00:48:16.963
We were like the two
hottest bounce artists

1042
00:48:16.996 --> 00:48:18.164
at the time.

1043
00:48:18.198 --> 00:48:21.034
She was like
the female version of me,

1044
00:48:21.067 --> 00:48:23.536
and I was like
the female version of her,

1045
00:48:23.570 --> 00:48:27.173
so it was just like
we were on that same path,

1046
00:48:27.207 --> 00:48:29.009
repping New Orleans

1047
00:48:29.042 --> 00:48:30.410
and putting New Orleans
back on the map

1048
00:48:30.443 --> 00:48:32.278
through bounce music.

1049
00:48:32.312 --> 00:48:33.480
New Orleans police

1050
00:48:33.513 --> 00:48:35.181
are investigating
three deadly shootings

1051
00:48:35.215 --> 00:48:37.017
in a span of just two hours.

1052
00:48:37.050 --> 00:48:39.519
The latest incident happened
around 12:30 this afternoon.

1053
00:48:39.552 --> 00:48:42.288
Freedia:
She was brutally killed and shot

1054
00:48:42.322 --> 00:48:45.358
because of the guy
she was hanging out with.

1055
00:48:45.392 --> 00:48:49.162
There were actually,
you know, hearsay

1056
00:48:49.195 --> 00:48:52.165
they were actually
looking to kill him,

1057
00:48:52.198 --> 00:48:54.300
and she was in the car
with him at the same time.

1058
00:48:54.334 --> 00:48:57.437
<i>Newscaster: So far, there</i>
<i>are no suspects or a motive.</i>

1059
00:48:57.470 --> 00:48:59.406
Can't have any witnesses.

1060
00:48:59.439 --> 00:49:03.109
So she was killed
on a funny style.

1061
00:49:03.143 --> 00:49:05.178
Make that ass
sound like a car.

1062
00:49:05.211 --> 00:49:06.479
5, 4, 3...

1063
00:49:06.513 --> 00:49:09.382
Messy Mya was also
another local artist

1064
00:49:09.416 --> 00:49:10.750
who was on a rise.

1065
00:49:10.784 --> 00:49:13.319
BeyoncÃ© used both of our voices

1066
00:49:13.353 --> 00:49:17.791
as a voiceover
in the "Formation" remix.

1067
00:49:17.824 --> 00:49:20.026
What happened
at the New Orleans?

1068
00:49:20.060 --> 00:49:23.029
Messy Mya was killed,
unfortunately,

1069
00:49:23.063 --> 00:49:25.298
at a block party
that I had just left at

1070
00:49:25.331 --> 00:49:27.767
and finished performing at.

1071
00:49:27.801 --> 00:49:31.071
And that particular day,
I felt something strange

1072
00:49:31.104 --> 00:49:32.405
was gonna happen
at the block party

1073
00:49:32.439 --> 00:49:34.140
'cause a lot of times

1074
00:49:34.174 --> 00:49:36.109
it's usually shooting
at the block party.

1075
00:49:36.142 --> 00:49:38.345
I've had to, like,
duck under cars

1076
00:49:38.378 --> 00:49:40.246
and behind trucks
and hide behind trash cans.

1077
00:49:40.280 --> 00:49:42.549
And that particular day,

1078
00:49:42.582 --> 00:49:45.085
I was, like, "I'm gonna rap
and I'm gonna leave.

1079
00:49:45.118 --> 00:49:47.087
I'm not gonna hang around."

1080
00:49:47.120 --> 00:49:49.322
And 10, 15 minutes later,
they called me

1081
00:49:49.356 --> 00:49:51.424
and said
that Messy Mya was dead.

1082
00:49:51.458 --> 00:49:54.060
We're out here.
We're making a stand

1083
00:49:54.094 --> 00:49:55.829
because we feel like
enough is enough.

1084
00:49:55.862 --> 00:49:58.498
One of the bounce legends--

1085
00:49:58.531 --> 00:50:01.101
Big Freedia's gonna say
a few works for us.

1086
00:50:01.134 --> 00:50:04.304
I am very saddened about our
loss to the bounce community

1087
00:50:04.337 --> 00:50:06.473
and to the bounce family.

1088
00:50:06.506 --> 00:50:09.109
Messy Mya--We all knew Mya
for telling jokes

1089
00:50:09.142 --> 00:50:10.577
and making us all laugh.

1090
00:50:10.610 --> 00:50:12.512
Instead of this being
something sad,

1091
00:50:12.545 --> 00:50:14.280
we can celebrate his life.

1092
00:50:14.314 --> 00:50:17.117
Now it's time for us
to stick together

1093
00:50:17.150 --> 00:50:18.551
more than anything.

1094
00:50:18.585 --> 00:50:21.821
And let this be an experience
that we all can learn from

1095
00:50:21.855 --> 00:50:23.656
to love each other more.

1096
00:50:23.690 --> 00:50:25.291
Thank you all so much.

1097
00:50:25.325 --> 00:50:26.826
Woman: One love.

1098
00:50:36.569 --> 00:50:39.239
- What's going on?
- Hey, what's going on, Freedia?

1099
00:50:39.272 --> 00:50:41.508
- I'm chillin'. How you doing?
- Wonderful. Wonderful.

1100
00:50:41.541 --> 00:50:44.878
So this my neighborhood.
I grew up here.

1101
00:50:44.911 --> 00:50:47.447
Come around here,
trying to educate people

1102
00:50:47.480 --> 00:50:49.249
of gun violence

1103
00:50:49.282 --> 00:50:52.652
that we can, um, be able to live
in this community together

1104
00:50:52.686 --> 00:50:56.289
without killing one another.
- Hell, yeah.

1105
00:50:56.322 --> 00:50:57.891
Lost a lot of people
in this neighborhood

1106
00:50:57.924 --> 00:50:59.893
to gun violence.
- I can imagine.

1107
00:50:59.926 --> 00:51:03.296
A lot of cousins
and good friends of mine

1108
00:51:03.329 --> 00:51:06.199
and, unfortunately,
by the hands of one another.

1109
00:51:06.232 --> 00:51:09.169
I would never admit
to killing no one.

1110
00:51:09.202 --> 00:51:12.172
Right? Even if I have.

1111
00:51:12.205 --> 00:51:15.675
But I went to jail for it,
and I went to trial for it.

1112
00:51:15.709 --> 00:51:16.643
Right?

1113
00:51:18.411 --> 00:51:21.548
I was in the wrong place
at the wrong time.

1114
00:51:21.581 --> 00:51:26.486
There's a lot of dynamics
to gun violence.

1115
00:51:26.519 --> 00:51:28.455
Like, ain't nobody
just jumping up saying

1116
00:51:28.488 --> 00:51:30.190
"Oh, I'm gonna
just be a killer."

1117
00:51:30.223 --> 00:51:31.491
That is not how that started.

1118
00:51:36.229 --> 00:51:39.165
I grew up. We were very poor.

1119
00:51:39.199 --> 00:51:41.201
Lot of things
I was dealing with.

1120
00:51:41.234 --> 00:51:44.270
My stepfather
was really abusive.

1121
00:51:44.304 --> 00:51:45.739
And because of that,

1122
00:51:45.772 --> 00:51:49.275
I had a lot of, um,
psychological problems.

1123
00:51:49.309 --> 00:51:53.613
The way I acted out landed me
in different institutions.

1124
00:51:53.646 --> 00:51:55.949
I probably was
the youngest person in there.

1125
00:51:55.982 --> 00:51:59.252
I was definitely the smallest.

1126
00:51:59.285 --> 00:52:01.755
We used to go
to the 7-Eleven down the street

1127
00:52:01.788 --> 00:52:04.624
and steal alcohol, and,
you know, we would drink it.

1128
00:52:04.657 --> 00:52:06.359
And before you know it,

1129
00:52:06.393 --> 00:52:08.228
you know,
I was snorting cocaine.

1130
00:52:08.261 --> 00:52:10.930
I think I was 10, 11 years old.

1131
00:52:10.964 --> 00:52:13.233
What's up, soldier?

1132
00:52:13.266 --> 00:52:14.668
Oh, yeah, it's a good day.

1133
00:52:14.701 --> 00:52:16.770
- How you feeling?
- What's up?

1134
00:52:16.803 --> 00:52:18.538
You good?

1135
00:52:20.640 --> 00:52:23.943
I was known in my part of town
as a jack artist

1136
00:52:23.977 --> 00:52:26.646
'cause, you know, I would
rob people to support my habit.

1137
00:52:26.680 --> 00:52:28.948
You know, breaking in cars
and breaking in houses.

1138
00:52:28.982 --> 00:52:30.784
that had guns in there.

1139
00:52:30.817 --> 00:52:33.586
So I've always had a gun.

1140
00:52:33.620 --> 00:52:36.690
I almost lost my life about
three times on this corner.

1141
00:52:36.723 --> 00:52:39.292
Yeah, so you got a lot of pain
in this neighborhood.

1142
00:52:39.325 --> 00:52:41.661
Right. So this is
the spot right here

1143
00:52:41.695 --> 00:52:43.730
where I actually got shot.

1144
00:52:43.763 --> 00:52:46.533
They had so many bullets
coming at me.

1145
00:52:46.566 --> 00:52:48.668
You know,
I had ran out of bullets.

1146
00:52:48.702 --> 00:52:51.538
I only had a handgun,
and I was shot in my arm,

1147
00:52:51.571 --> 00:52:52.739
and I was shot in my leg.

1148
00:52:52.772 --> 00:52:56.576
The guy ran over.
He stood up over me,

1149
00:52:56.609 --> 00:52:59.512
and he was shooting.

1150
00:52:59.546 --> 00:53:01.548
He was shooting.
I just thought I was dead.

1151
00:53:01.581 --> 00:53:03.683
You know, for some reason,

1152
00:53:03.717 --> 00:53:07.387
he just turned around
and jumped in the car and ran.

1153
00:53:07.420 --> 00:53:11.491
I was 19 years old,
and I should've been dead.

1154
00:53:13.059 --> 00:53:15.261
What's up, brother?
How you been?

1155
00:53:15.295 --> 00:53:16.363
- Your world.
- You been all right?

1156
00:53:16.396 --> 00:53:18.531
- Yes, indeed, man.
- That's what I'm talking about.

1157
00:53:18.565 --> 00:53:19.566
It's Freedia right here, bruh.
- What's happening?

1158
00:53:19.599 --> 00:53:21.501
- How you doing?
- I'm good.

1159
00:53:21.534 --> 00:53:24.571
This Lamont. Me and Lamont used
to run the street together.

1160
00:53:24.604 --> 00:53:26.539
How long you been
in that chair, bruh?

1161
00:53:26.573 --> 00:53:29.709
Since '90.
I got shot at a young age,

1162
00:53:29.743 --> 00:53:31.678
you know, in the projects.

1163
00:53:31.711 --> 00:53:34.781
Somebody tried to...rob me.

1164
00:53:34.814 --> 00:53:37.350
I wouldn't give up the money.
Young at the time.

1165
00:53:38.485 --> 00:53:40.020
Living that life.

1166
00:53:41.755 --> 00:53:43.590
Rebellious.

1167
00:53:43.623 --> 00:53:45.525
- You know I was.
- Right, right.

1168
00:53:45.558 --> 00:53:47.527
You know, stubborn.

1169
00:53:47.560 --> 00:53:50.563
The first desire of man
is to survive.

1170
00:53:50.597 --> 00:53:52.532
And when our survival is
threatened,

1171
00:53:52.565 --> 00:53:53.633
then we will do anything.

1172
00:53:54.868 --> 00:53:57.504
There's my other cousin
out here in this wheelchair.

1173
00:53:57.537 --> 00:53:59.873
He been in that chair
for about 30 years.

1174
00:53:59.906 --> 00:54:02.342
- How you doing, brother?
- Good.

1175
00:54:02.375 --> 00:54:03.777
What's up? How you doing?

1176
00:54:03.810 --> 00:54:08.348
If you wanted to survive
on the street,

1177
00:54:08.381 --> 00:54:10.350
you have to hold yourself down.

1178
00:54:10.383 --> 00:54:11.718
You know, you got to be a man.

1179
00:54:11.751 --> 00:54:13.453
If not, then everybody
gonna mess with you.

1180
00:54:13.486 --> 00:54:15.755
I did a lot of destructive
things around here,

1181
00:54:15.789 --> 00:54:17.857
but right now I'm just trying
to keep young Black men alive.

1182
00:54:21.428 --> 00:54:22.862
Can you tell him
that you love him

1183
00:54:22.896 --> 00:54:24.764
just one last time?

1184
00:54:24.798 --> 00:54:26.666
Say "I love you, Daddy."

1185
00:54:26.700 --> 00:54:29.502
I--I love you, Daddy.

1186
00:54:29.536 --> 00:54:31.771
Words from a young boy
to his father

1187
00:54:31.805 --> 00:54:33.873
who was shot and killed
last night in Algiers.

1188
00:54:33.907 --> 00:54:36.376
<i>Woman: An emotional day</i>
<i>for family members</i>

1189
00:54:36.409 --> 00:54:37.677
<i>of Ryan Massey.</i>

1190
00:54:37.711 --> 00:54:39.713
<i>The 25-year-old was shot</i>
<i>multiple times</i>

1191
00:54:39.746 --> 00:54:42.549
<i>at the Garden Oaks</i>
<i>Apartment Complex in Algiers.</i>

1192
00:54:42.582 --> 00:54:45.685
<i>NOPD say a verbal argument</i>
<i>turned physical.</i>

1193
00:54:45.719 --> 00:54:47.821
<i>Earlier today, his family</i>
<i>started a memorial</i>

1194
00:54:47.854 --> 00:54:49.589
<i>in his honor,</i>

1195
00:54:49.622 --> 00:54:51.358
<i>where they say</i>
<i>the hardest part about this</i>

1196
00:54:51.391 --> 00:54:54.527
<i>is having to explain his death</i>
<i>to his 4-year-old son.</i>

1197
00:54:54.561 --> 00:54:57.697
Celebrating the life
of Ryan Massey--

1198
00:54:57.731 --> 00:55:01.801
sunrise October 10, 1992,

1199
00:55:01.835 --> 00:55:06.406
sunset April 5, 2018.

1200
00:55:06.439 --> 00:55:10.777
This is the third nephew
I've lost to the street.

1201
00:55:10.810 --> 00:55:15.448
If my family don't see
what I see,

1202
00:55:15.482 --> 00:55:16.950
something wrong.

1203
00:55:16.983 --> 00:55:19.619
Father God, we thank You today

1204
00:55:19.652 --> 00:55:22.722
for all the ministers,

1205
00:55:22.756 --> 00:55:25.759
for the Massey families,

1206
00:55:25.792 --> 00:55:29.662
all the friends, God,
that came from near and far.

1207
00:55:29.696 --> 00:55:31.598
I remember when I was
becoming a man,

1208
00:55:31.631 --> 00:55:32.599
we used to fist fight.

1209
00:55:32.632 --> 00:55:34.634
That was our guns.

1210
00:55:34.668 --> 00:55:37.437
Now when you fight,
you ain't shaking it off,

1211
00:55:37.470 --> 00:55:40.440
scared of whooping,

1212
00:55:40.473 --> 00:55:43.643
scared of--
scared of beat-down.

1213
00:55:43.677 --> 00:55:45.845
You go and get a gun.

1214
00:55:45.879 --> 00:55:47.814
What that gonna solve?

1215
00:55:47.847 --> 00:55:50.150
You kill me.

1216
00:55:50.183 --> 00:55:51.851
Either you're gonna get caught,

1217
00:55:51.885 --> 00:55:53.753
or somebody gonna kill you.

1218
00:55:53.787 --> 00:55:55.822
I had the intent today

1219
00:55:55.855 --> 00:55:58.591
to preach on the sermon
"I Fought a Good Fight,"

1220
00:55:58.625 --> 00:56:01.528
but when I got ready
to come across the bridge,

1221
00:56:01.561 --> 00:56:04.464
God changed the message.

1222
00:56:04.497 --> 00:56:05.699
See, where I come from--

1223
00:56:05.732 --> 00:56:06.966
I come from oppression,

1224
00:56:07.000 --> 00:56:08.735
I come from the brickyard,

1225
00:56:08.768 --> 00:56:10.737
and when you fight
the good fight,

1226
00:56:10.770 --> 00:56:13.606
you get up and you shake hands.

1227
00:56:13.640 --> 00:56:15.642
But somebody don't know
how to fight a good fight.

1228
00:56:15.675 --> 00:56:17.577
[ cheering ]

1229
00:56:17.610 --> 00:56:19.512
A good fight is a clean fight.

1230
00:56:19.546 --> 00:56:20.780
A good fight mean
I can walk away

1231
00:56:20.814 --> 00:56:23.483
and say
"We can still be friends.

1232
00:56:23.516 --> 00:56:26.586
We can still be homies.
We can still be buddies."

1233
00:56:26.619 --> 00:56:28.021
I'm talking about a good fight.

1234
00:56:28.054 --> 00:56:29.956
[ cheering ]

1235
00:56:29.989 --> 00:56:32.625
The right words came
out of his mouth to me

1236
00:56:32.659 --> 00:56:34.828
that "Unc, I love you."

1237
00:56:34.861 --> 00:56:37.731
That's some powerful words.

1238
00:56:37.764 --> 00:56:40.967
It hurt me
once I got by myself

1239
00:56:41.001 --> 00:56:43.636
'cause I can't let nobody
see me crying,

1240
00:56:43.670 --> 00:56:45.438
let nobody see me break.

1241
00:56:47.507 --> 00:56:50.810
Can't let my emotion
take the best of me.

1242
00:56:50.844 --> 00:56:54.948
Why couldn't you let anyone
see you break down or...

1243
00:56:54.981 --> 00:56:57.917
You feel normal emotions
from losing a...

1244
00:57:00.053 --> 00:57:02.689
My mother asked
that same question

1245
00:57:02.722 --> 00:57:05.258
that you asked me.

1246
00:57:05.291 --> 00:57:07.927
And she said, "Let it out.

1247
00:57:07.961 --> 00:57:11.631
"Maybe it's good for somebody
to be there with you

1248
00:57:11.664 --> 00:57:12.932
when you let it out."

1249
00:57:17.037 --> 00:57:19.806
I just went off on my own
and just...

1250
00:57:19.839 --> 00:57:22.542
went...on the levy.

1251
00:57:25.779 --> 00:57:27.714
I just went on the levy
and just let it out.

1252
00:57:30.917 --> 00:57:32.652
There is something
that I need to say,

1253
00:57:32.686 --> 00:57:34.087
and I need you to hear it.

1254
00:57:34.120 --> 00:57:36.890
Once upon a time,
you would hear the sentiment

1255
00:57:36.923 --> 00:57:40.260
"It takes a village
to raise a child."

1256
00:57:40.293 --> 00:57:42.062
Now we live
in fear of the village

1257
00:57:42.095 --> 00:57:44.297
because our babies
are being slaughtered

1258
00:57:44.330 --> 00:57:46.566
at the hands of our babies.

1259
00:57:46.599 --> 00:57:48.835
We've lost sight
of the village.

1260
00:57:48.868 --> 00:57:51.271
I grew up in the Fisher
Housing Development.

1261
00:57:51.304 --> 00:57:53.707
It is a part
of the Algiers community

1262
00:57:53.740 --> 00:57:56.843
on the west bank
of the Mississippi River.

1263
00:57:56.876 --> 00:57:59.546
It was...
a housing development--

1264
00:57:59.579 --> 00:58:00.847
extreme poverty.

1265
00:58:00.880 --> 00:58:03.616
I grew up in the household
without my father.

1266
00:58:03.650 --> 00:58:05.752
My grandmother raised me
part time

1267
00:58:05.785 --> 00:58:08.088
'cause my mother battled
a drug addiction.

1268
00:58:08.121 --> 00:58:09.856
Even though I grew up

1269
00:58:09.889 --> 00:58:12.092
in what people would consider
the projects--

1270
00:58:12.125 --> 00:58:14.694
we came up
in a very violent area,

1271
00:58:14.728 --> 00:58:16.863
but we also came up
with a lot of loving people.

1272
00:58:16.896 --> 00:58:19.899
We had what I consider
to be a village.

1273
00:58:19.933 --> 00:58:21.768
There was always people around

1274
00:58:21.801 --> 00:58:23.136
that could kind of push you
in the right direction.

1275
00:58:23.169 --> 00:58:24.671
Even if your parent

1276
00:58:24.704 --> 00:58:27.607
or your guardian by blood
wasn't there,

1277
00:58:27.640 --> 00:58:29.876
then your neighborhood
grandmother or aunt

1278
00:58:29.909 --> 00:58:31.578
could always chastise you

1279
00:58:31.611 --> 00:58:33.813
and kind of get you
back on the right track.

1280
00:58:33.847 --> 00:58:37.083
All of the neighbors
knew you, knew your parents,

1281
00:58:37.117 --> 00:58:39.886
and not just
"Hey, how you doing?"

1282
00:58:39.919 --> 00:58:43.590
They knew you by name.
They knew where you lived.

1283
00:58:43.623 --> 00:58:44.891
They knew
your mama's phone number,

1284
00:58:44.924 --> 00:58:47.327
your mama, your grandmother,
your grandfather,

1285
00:58:47.360 --> 00:58:49.829
and of course they got you
in a lot of trouble, too,

1286
00:58:49.863 --> 00:58:51.898
because if they saw you
doing something

1287
00:58:51.931 --> 00:58:53.133
or thought
you were doing something,

1288
00:58:53.166 --> 00:58:55.068
you got in trouble.

1289
00:58:55.101 --> 00:58:56.703
The neighbor
would whoop your ass

1290
00:58:56.736 --> 00:58:58.872
before you got home,

1291
00:58:58.905 --> 00:59:00.774
and then your mom
and your daddy

1292
00:59:00.807 --> 00:59:01.975
would whoop your ass.

1293
00:59:02.008 --> 00:59:03.910
I wasn't just raised
by my mom and dad.

1294
00:59:03.943 --> 00:59:07.647
I was raised by my aunts,
my uncles, my cousins.

1295
00:59:07.681 --> 00:59:09.616
Everybody helped to raise us.

1296
00:59:09.649 --> 00:59:11.618
So I think that's
the largest change,

1297
00:59:11.651 --> 00:59:13.186
that the village
is disappearing

1298
00:59:13.219 --> 00:59:14.354
right before our eyes.

1299
00:59:19.426 --> 00:59:20.827
Ray Nagin:
Ladies and gentlemen,

1300
00:59:20.860 --> 00:59:22.662
this is not a test.

1301
00:59:22.696 --> 00:59:24.864
This is the real deal.

1302
00:59:24.898 --> 00:59:27.033
There's a major hurricane

1303
00:59:27.067 --> 00:59:29.135
that is in the Gulf of Mexico.

1304
00:59:29.169 --> 00:59:31.871
This is the storm
of the century.

1305
00:59:31.905 --> 00:59:34.674
Freedia: New Orleans
has always had its problems,

1306
00:59:34.708 --> 00:59:36.943
but it's just never been
the same since Katrina.

1307
00:59:36.976 --> 00:59:39.412
I was about 27
when Katrina hit.

1308
00:59:39.446 --> 00:59:41.214
Adam was about 22.

1309
00:59:41.247 --> 00:59:43.717
Crystal had just had her baby.

1310
00:59:43.750 --> 00:59:46.686
<i>There have been</i>
<i>evacuation orders,</i>

1311
00:59:46.720 --> 00:59:48.888
<i>but for the most part,</i>
<i>it seems</i>

1312
00:59:48.922 --> 00:59:50.790
<i>like many people are gonna</i>
<i>just take their chance.</i>

1313
00:59:50.824 --> 00:59:52.859
We were just like
the typical New Orleans people.

1314
00:59:52.892 --> 00:59:54.160
We didn't want to evacuate.

1315
00:59:54.194 --> 00:59:56.996
We thought, Oh,
it's just gonna blow over.

1316
01:00:00.700 --> 01:00:02.836
<i>Woman:</i>
<i>Quite incredible scene here.</i>

1317
01:00:02.869 --> 01:00:05.705
<i>The flooding on the street</i>
<i>has gotten considerably worse.</i>

1318
01:00:05.739 --> 01:00:07.974
<i>I've got some skyscrapers</i>
<i>off to my right here,</i>

1319
01:00:08.008 --> 01:00:11.411
<i>and we are just watching</i>
<i>them fall apart.</i>

1320
01:00:11.444 --> 01:00:15.015
<i>Man: The worst of the storm</i>
<i>has now reached New Orleans.</i>

1321
01:00:15.048 --> 01:00:18.118
<i>This is the moment</i>
<i>we've been talking about.</i>

1322
01:00:18.151 --> 01:00:19.853
<i>Man #2: If the predictions</i>
<i>come true,</i>

1323
01:00:19.886 --> 01:00:21.454
<i>if the predictions are right,</i>

1324
01:00:21.488 --> 01:00:23.023
<i>there will be</i>
<i>a lot of dead people</i>

1325
01:00:23.056 --> 01:00:24.190
<i>in New Orleans tomorrow,</i>

1326
01:00:24.224 --> 01:00:25.859
<i>there's no question about it.</i>

1327
01:00:36.736 --> 01:00:39.072
[ helicopter ]

1328
01:00:39.105 --> 01:00:41.241
Freedia:
It was the worst storm ever.

1329
01:00:41.274 --> 01:00:45.912
It hit, and we were
trapped in my house.

1330
01:00:48.114 --> 01:00:49.482
<i>Man: Give me line 5.</i>

1331
01:00:49.516 --> 01:00:51.051
<i>Freddie in Lakefront,</i>
<i>Freddie on WWL.</i>

1332
01:01:04.931 --> 01:01:06.733
<i>All right,</i>
<i>they're monitoring this.</i>

1333
01:01:06.766 --> 01:01:09.836
<i>All I can tell you is do</i>
<i>everything you can to signal</i>

1334
01:01:09.869 --> 01:01:11.471
<i>if the helicopters</i>
<i>are passing over you.</i>

1335
01:01:11.504 --> 01:01:13.239
<i>Yeah. You're the exc--</i>

1336
01:01:13.273 --> 01:01:15.041
<i>And is the water rising</i>
<i>any more?</i>

1337
01:01:23.216 --> 01:01:25.185
<i>All right, I got you.</i>

1338
01:01:25.218 --> 01:01:27.921
<i>I'll cross my fingers</i>
<i>and say a prayer, Fred.</i>

1339
01:01:27.954 --> 01:01:29.823
<i>Good luck to you. Godspeed.</i>

1340
01:01:29.856 --> 01:01:31.024
<i>Thank you.</i>

1341
01:01:35.195 --> 01:01:38.131
We were stuck there
for two days

1342
01:01:38.164 --> 01:01:41.201
before we was rescued
by a boat.

1343
01:01:42.936 --> 01:01:46.773
* I shall not *

1344
01:01:46.806 --> 01:01:50.810
* I shall not be moved *

1345
01:01:50.844 --> 01:01:54.247
* I shall not *

1346
01:01:54.280 --> 01:01:56.950
* I shall not be moved *

1347
01:01:56.983 --> 01:01:59.886
* Just like a tree *

1348
01:01:59.919 --> 01:02:04.958
* That's planted by the Lord *

1349
01:02:04.991 --> 01:02:13.299
* Oh, I shall not be moved *

1350
01:02:15.835 --> 01:02:18.138
We wound up sleeping
on the bridge for a night,

1351
01:02:18.171 --> 01:02:21.307
and then some buses came
and got us the next morning

1352
01:02:21.341 --> 01:02:23.176
and brought us
by the Superdome...

1353
01:02:27.414 --> 01:02:31.151
where we were turned around
with guns at the Superdome.

1354
01:02:33.019 --> 01:02:35.288
And we were told
to go to the Convention Center.

1355
01:02:35.321 --> 01:02:38.291
Help! Help! Help! Help!

1356
01:02:38.324 --> 01:02:40.560
Help! Help! Help! Help!

1357
01:02:40.593 --> 01:02:42.829
Help! Help! Help! Help!

1358
01:02:42.862 --> 01:02:45.198
Help! Help! Help! Help!

1359
01:02:45.231 --> 01:02:47.267
Help! Help! Help! Help!

1360
01:02:47.300 --> 01:02:50.003
I think one of the things
that people want us to do here

1361
01:02:50.036 --> 01:02:51.304
is to play a blame game.

1362
01:02:51.338 --> 01:02:53.039
I...

1363
01:02:53.073 --> 01:02:55.575
We got to solve problems.
We're problem solvers.

1364
01:02:57.277 --> 01:02:59.946
What I'm interested
is helping save lives.

1365
01:02:59.979 --> 01:03:01.181
That's what I want to do.

1366
01:03:03.883 --> 01:03:05.151
That five nights

1367
01:03:05.185 --> 01:03:07.420
staying on that ground
by the Convention Center

1368
01:03:07.454 --> 01:03:09.923
probably was the worst
five nights of my life.

1369
01:03:19.933 --> 01:03:20.934
Aw, baby.

1370
01:03:23.103 --> 01:03:25.238
When I left after Katrina--

1371
01:03:25.271 --> 01:03:28.041
I was gone
about 10 to 12 months

1372
01:03:28.074 --> 01:03:29.943
before I went
back to New Orleans.

1373
01:03:33.346 --> 01:03:35.115
It still had a smell

1374
01:03:35.148 --> 01:03:38.618
like something was dead
in the whole city.

1375
01:03:38.651 --> 01:03:40.453
Oh, my God,
is this really New Orleans?

1376
01:03:40.487 --> 01:03:42.322
You could not believe

1377
01:03:42.355 --> 01:03:45.892
that a city
that was full of so much life

1378
01:03:45.925 --> 01:03:47.260
was just like a dead city.

1379
01:04:05.979 --> 01:04:08.314
Now you had neighborhoods

1380
01:04:08.348 --> 01:04:10.250
that previously didn't
really jell.

1381
01:04:10.283 --> 01:04:12.152
Now they're in the same area.

1382
01:04:12.185 --> 01:04:14.988
People feel like they
have to be territorial, right?

1383
01:04:15.021 --> 01:04:17.323
So you have young people now

1384
01:04:17.357 --> 01:04:19.693
that they grew up
hearing stories

1385
01:04:19.726 --> 01:04:23.229
about how their relatives lived
in this housing development

1386
01:04:23.263 --> 01:04:24.931
and another one lived
in this neighborhood

1387
01:04:24.964 --> 01:04:26.032
or housing development

1388
01:04:26.066 --> 01:04:27.701
and these areas
didn't get along.

1389
01:04:27.734 --> 01:04:29.436
So now they grow up
hearing this,

1390
01:04:29.469 --> 01:04:31.071
and they feel like
"We have to continue

1391
01:04:31.104 --> 01:04:33.039
this crazy legacy."

1392
01:04:33.073 --> 01:04:34.240
In this city,

1393
01:04:34.274 --> 01:04:37.243
people are particular
about areas

1394
01:04:37.277 --> 01:04:39.379
and turfs and wards

1395
01:04:39.412 --> 01:04:40.980
and neighborhoods,

1396
01:04:41.014 --> 01:04:42.682
and when you mix that
all together,

1397
01:04:42.716 --> 01:04:47.253
that's not always a recipe
for rose petals and lilies.

1398
01:04:47.287 --> 01:04:51.057
The social system for kids
is nonexistent, you know.

1399
01:04:51.091 --> 01:04:53.226
My kids can't come out here
and go around the corner

1400
01:04:53.259 --> 01:04:55.128
and play with the kids
around the corner

1401
01:04:55.161 --> 01:04:56.996
'cause there aren't any kids
around the corner.

1402
01:04:57.030 --> 01:04:58.531
Who's worrying about
what type of child

1403
01:04:58.565 --> 01:05:01.067
we're gonna have
5 or 10 years up the road?

1404
01:05:01.101 --> 01:05:02.535
I am

1405
01:05:02.569 --> 01:05:04.537
'cause I don't want
my grandchildren to be the one

1406
01:05:04.571 --> 01:05:06.106
that's gonna stick a gun
in somebody's face.

1407
01:05:06.139 --> 01:05:08.708
All that has a psychic cost.

1408
01:05:10.543 --> 01:05:14.280
Charles: I look at these boys,
and I see pain,

1409
01:05:14.314 --> 01:05:17.083
and we don't let them
be vulnerable.

1410
01:05:17.117 --> 01:05:18.518
That's not healthy.

1411
01:05:18.551 --> 01:05:20.420
If you're never allowed
to express that,

1412
01:05:20.453 --> 01:05:22.455
it's going to come out

1413
01:05:22.489 --> 01:05:25.125
and likely
in a destructive way.

1414
01:05:28.161 --> 01:05:31.064
There's a epidemiologist

1415
01:05:31.097 --> 01:05:34.434
that says violence
is a contagion.

1416
01:05:34.467 --> 01:05:37.771
It acts like a disease,

1417
01:05:37.804 --> 01:05:42.242
that it transfers
to the next person

1418
01:05:42.275 --> 01:05:44.377
to the next person.

1419
01:05:44.411 --> 01:05:47.147
When I look at the age range

1420
01:05:47.180 --> 01:05:51.151
of young people who have
committed gun violence

1421
01:05:51.184 --> 01:05:55.455
and who are victims
of gun violence, right?

1422
01:05:55.488 --> 01:06:00.527
I think about the age they were
when Hurricane Katrina hit...

1423
01:06:03.596 --> 01:06:07.500
and the trauma
that they had to suffer

1424
01:06:07.534 --> 01:06:09.469
through that whole ordeal.

1425
01:06:09.502 --> 01:06:11.471
One of the things

1426
01:06:11.504 --> 01:06:15.208
that people in the community
suffer from

1427
01:06:15.241 --> 01:06:20.780
is post-traumatic
stress disorder--PTSD.

1428
01:06:20.814 --> 01:06:24.484
People are traumatized.

1429
01:06:24.517 --> 01:06:29.222
Some of those kids were 8,
9, 10 years old, right?

1430
01:06:29.255 --> 01:06:32.158
And you look
at the age range now,

1431
01:06:32.192 --> 01:06:35.228
10, 13 years later,

1432
01:06:35.261 --> 01:06:37.497
these are the young people

1433
01:06:37.530 --> 01:06:40.433
that's out here now

1434
01:06:40.467 --> 01:06:41.534
that's cutting up.

1435
01:06:44.371 --> 01:06:46.106
A lot of these young men
out here

1436
01:06:46.139 --> 01:06:47.607
is overcompensating
for their manhood.

1437
01:06:47.640 --> 01:06:49.476
Something has happened
to them

1438
01:06:49.509 --> 01:06:51.845
that threatened their manhood.

1439
01:06:51.878 --> 01:06:53.546
- Mm-hmm.
- It doesn't necessarily

1440
01:06:53.580 --> 01:06:55.448
have to be sexual abuse,

1441
01:06:55.482 --> 01:06:57.217
although that is something
that happens.

1442
01:06:57.250 --> 01:06:59.519
- Right.
- We have emotional abuse.

1443
01:06:59.552 --> 01:07:01.254
We have physical abuse.

1444
01:07:01.287 --> 01:07:03.189
And we have young people
out here

1445
01:07:03.223 --> 01:07:05.358
trying to prove to themselves
that they are men.

1446
01:07:05.392 --> 01:07:06.459
Mm-hmm.

1447
01:07:07.594 --> 01:07:09.496
Talking about mental health

1448
01:07:09.529 --> 01:07:12.866
in the Black community
is taboo.

1449
01:07:12.899 --> 01:07:14.434
We don't want to talk
about that.

1450
01:07:14.467 --> 01:07:18.338
If we are not dealing
with our psychological issues,

1451
01:07:18.371 --> 01:07:21.541
then we're gonna always
have our problems.

1452
01:07:21.574 --> 01:07:24.611
But I'm saying this
from my own personal experience.

1453
01:07:24.644 --> 01:07:27.614
I was a problem child
growing up in this neighborhood.

1454
01:07:27.647 --> 01:07:32.152
I've been to institutions
all my young life.

1455
01:07:32.185 --> 01:07:34.688
Psychologically,
something was wrong.

1456
01:07:34.721 --> 01:07:36.122
- Right.
- Something was happening

1457
01:07:36.156 --> 01:07:37.357
with me, right?

1458
01:07:37.390 --> 01:07:39.426
So if we don't deal
with the sickness,

1459
01:07:39.459 --> 01:07:41.361
then the guns
will always be there

1460
01:07:41.394 --> 01:07:42.629
and the dope will
always be there

1461
01:07:42.662 --> 01:07:44.330
and we're gonna always
have the problems.

1462
01:07:46.332 --> 01:07:51.438
My son was born
March of 1996.

1463
01:07:51.471 --> 01:07:56.409
I really knew that I had
to do something, right?

1464
01:07:56.443 --> 01:07:59.546
Joined a 12 Step program.

1465
01:07:59.579 --> 01:08:01.715
You know, I got a sponsor,

1466
01:08:01.748 --> 01:08:04.718
and I've been clean 22 years.

1467
01:08:04.751 --> 01:08:07.620
So that's like my son's
whole lifetime

1468
01:08:07.654 --> 01:08:09.556
that, you know,
that I've been clean.

1469
01:08:09.589 --> 01:08:13.593
And thank God that my children
never seen me like that.

1470
01:08:13.626 --> 01:08:17.397
I'm the person that
even my family members thought

1471
01:08:17.430 --> 01:08:18.732
was not gonna be here.

1472
01:08:18.765 --> 01:08:22.736
I was supposed to be dead
at 16, 17, 18, 19,

1473
01:08:22.769 --> 01:08:25.171
and I'll be 47 in June.

1474
01:08:25.205 --> 01:08:28.174
I know people
who have done less than me

1475
01:08:28.208 --> 01:08:30.577
that's in penitentiary
for the rest of their life

1476
01:08:30.610 --> 01:08:32.278
- or that's dead.
- Right.

1477
01:08:32.312 --> 01:08:33.613
So I have to believe

1478
01:08:33.646 --> 01:08:35.915
that there is something
for me to do.

1479
01:08:35.949 --> 01:08:37.283
- There is a purpose.
- Right.

1480
01:08:37.317 --> 01:08:38.618
- You have your purpose.
- That's right.

1481
01:08:38.651 --> 01:08:40.487
- God wasn't done with you yet.
- Right.

1482
01:08:40.520 --> 01:08:44.624
I like to live my life
as an example.

1483
01:08:44.657 --> 01:08:46.626
If I was considered

1484
01:08:46.659 --> 01:08:49.629
the worst person
in my neighborhood, right?

1485
01:08:49.662 --> 01:08:52.632
Then the Creator says,
"Okay, this is the worst one?

1486
01:08:52.665 --> 01:08:54.501
I'll fix him."

1487
01:08:54.534 --> 01:08:56.403
So it takes
everybody's excuses away.

1488
01:09:00.473 --> 01:09:04.611
[ jazzy marching band
music playing ]

1489
01:09:21.361 --> 01:09:22.762
[ gunshot ]

1490
01:09:22.796 --> 01:09:24.397
[ siren blares ]

1491
01:09:24.431 --> 01:09:25.765
We begin tonight
with breaking news.

1492
01:09:25.799 --> 01:09:27.467
New Orleans police
are investigating

1493
01:09:27.500 --> 01:09:29.269
a double shooting in the CBD

1494
01:09:29.302 --> 01:09:30.437
one block off

1495
01:09:30.470 --> 01:09:31.971
the St. Charles Avenue
parade route.

1496
01:09:32.005 --> 01:09:34.541
Witnesses tell me that they saw
a group of teenagers

1497
01:09:34.574 --> 01:09:36.609
take off down Union,

1498
01:09:36.643 --> 01:09:38.411
and then they heard five
to six shots fired.

1499
01:09:38.445 --> 01:09:40.647
One unknown male
was struck in the head.

1500
01:09:40.680 --> 01:09:42.282
That male is
in critical condition.

1501
01:09:42.315 --> 01:09:44.684
When I first heard
of the shooting,

1502
01:09:44.718 --> 01:09:46.419
I saw it on the news,

1503
01:09:46.453 --> 01:09:48.822
and I didn't know
whose shot it was,

1504
01:09:48.855 --> 01:09:51.291
but, you know, I remember
saying a little prayer,

1505
01:09:51.324 --> 01:09:52.425
and then, you know,

1506
01:09:52.459 --> 01:09:55.495
when we found out
it was actually Sam,

1507
01:09:55.528 --> 01:09:58.732
you know, it was like
the world just crashed.

1508
01:10:11.644 --> 01:10:14.414
Sam Butler is a kid

1509
01:10:14.447 --> 01:10:16.649
who went to the same
high school as me,

1510
01:10:16.683 --> 01:10:18.318
was a aspiring athlete

1511
01:10:18.351 --> 01:10:20.820
in football and baseball,

1512
01:10:20.854 --> 01:10:25.325
and was shot on Mardi Gras day
by a stray bullet

1513
01:10:25.358 --> 01:10:27.694
right after Adam was killed.

1514
01:10:27.727 --> 01:10:30.497
He didn't look, you know,
anything like his self--

1515
01:10:30.530 --> 01:10:34.768
swollen, staples in his head,
drains, and hooked up,

1516
01:10:34.801 --> 01:10:36.770
not breathing on his own.

1517
01:10:36.803 --> 01:10:39.439
Such a lively young man

1518
01:10:39.472 --> 01:10:41.341
just laying there
not responsive,

1519
01:10:41.374 --> 01:10:44.344
and you don't know
if he's gonna make it.

1520
01:10:44.377 --> 01:10:46.346
It was heartbreaking.

1521
01:10:46.379 --> 01:10:48.448
The bullet went in the right,

1522
01:10:48.481 --> 01:10:50.750
and it's in the left side,

1523
01:10:50.784 --> 01:10:54.554
so he actually have damage
on both sides of his brain.

1524
01:10:54.587 --> 01:10:58.324
He had two craniotomies
two days apart.

1525
01:10:58.358 --> 01:11:01.094
They told us that,
if he survived that surgery,

1526
01:11:01.127 --> 01:11:03.663
that he would have
left side paralysis.

1527
01:11:03.697 --> 01:11:06.566
So we didn't know
if he was gonna ever speak

1528
01:11:06.599 --> 01:11:09.536
or eat on his own,
breathe on his own.

1529
01:11:18.645 --> 01:11:19.679
- Hey.
- Hey.

1530
01:11:19.713 --> 01:11:20.847
- How are you?
- Good.

1531
01:11:20.880 --> 01:11:23.350
- How are you doing?
- I'm good.

1532
01:11:23.383 --> 01:11:24.818
Hey.

1533
01:11:24.851 --> 01:11:26.353
- Hey.
- How you doing?

1534
01:11:26.386 --> 01:11:28.888
- I'm doing good.
- You're doing good?

1535
01:11:28.922 --> 01:11:30.790
He's been doing
really, really good.

1536
01:11:30.824 --> 01:11:32.826
He's starting to move his leg.

1537
01:11:32.859 --> 01:11:35.362
Just started talking
in November.

1538
01:11:35.395 --> 01:11:36.930
I felt ex--

1539
01:11:36.963 --> 01:11:39.799
excited, excited.

1540
01:11:39.833 --> 01:11:42.402
- Mm-hmm.
- To be able to speak

1541
01:11:42.435 --> 01:11:43.937
to whoever you want.
- Mm-hmm.

1542
01:11:43.970 --> 01:11:46.139
Like--Like I used to.

1543
01:11:46.172 --> 01:11:47.941
He wanted a phone,

1544
01:11:47.974 --> 01:11:51.945
and he was writing
on the, um, erase board.

1545
01:11:51.978 --> 01:11:54.414
- Uh-huh.
- "I want a iPhone."

1546
01:11:54.447 --> 01:11:56.750
And I was like,
"When you start talking,

1547
01:11:56.783 --> 01:11:59.486
you can get a iPhone."

1548
01:11:59.519 --> 01:12:00.920
Sam started talking.

1549
01:12:00.954 --> 01:12:02.522
You got your iPhone,
though, huh?

1550
01:12:02.555 --> 01:12:04.524
- Yeah.
- [ laughter ]

1551
01:12:04.557 --> 01:12:07.660
- It's a new one.
- Okay.

1552
01:12:07.694 --> 01:12:09.896
And he's eating some now.

1553
01:12:09.929 --> 01:12:10.964
He wasn't eating.

1554
01:12:10.997 --> 01:12:12.432
You see all the feeding tube,

1555
01:12:12.465 --> 01:12:13.767
but he's--we don't access it

1556
01:12:13.800 --> 01:12:15.535
'cause he's starting
to eat by mouth.

1557
01:12:15.568 --> 01:12:18.438
Her had a goal to eat gumbo
for his birthday.

1558
01:12:18.471 --> 01:12:21.408
I swear. I swear.

1559
01:12:21.441 --> 01:12:25.412
It was like "Mind, come on,
mind, come on,"

1560
01:12:25.445 --> 01:12:27.847
- 'cause I got to eat gumbo.
- [ laughs ]

1561
01:12:27.881 --> 01:12:29.582
- And all that.

1562
01:12:29.616 --> 01:12:31.885
My mind was on that gumbo.

1563
01:12:33.787 --> 01:12:35.889
He loved gumbo.

1564
01:12:35.922 --> 01:12:37.991
- Come on, man.
- You hold him like that,

1565
01:12:38.024 --> 01:12:39.592
and he's doing his leg.

1566
01:12:39.626 --> 01:12:40.860
Nice job, sweetheart.

1567
01:12:40.894 --> 01:12:42.829
Okay, lock up that left leg.

1568
01:12:42.862 --> 01:12:44.731
You're gonna run out of room,
huh, homes?

1569
01:12:44.764 --> 01:12:46.800
They look at him
like a miracle now.

1570
01:12:46.833 --> 01:12:49.436
They're just amazed
at his progress,

1571
01:12:49.469 --> 01:12:50.503
and one of the surgeons

1572
01:12:50.537 --> 01:12:51.871
that actually did
his first surgery

1573
01:12:51.905 --> 01:12:53.673
when it happened

1574
01:12:53.707 --> 01:12:55.842
told me that usually they die

1575
01:12:55.875 --> 01:12:57.177
either before he get to them

1576
01:12:57.210 --> 01:12:59.446
or right after
he start surgery.

1577
01:12:59.479 --> 01:13:02.649
And to see Sam, you know,
has just been amazing,

1578
01:13:02.682 --> 01:13:03.750
- Oh, yeah.
- His progress and stuff.

1579
01:13:03.783 --> 01:13:06.619
'Cause he worked very hard,
very hard

1580
01:13:06.653 --> 01:13:07.921
'cause I told them
"Don't be light"

1581
01:13:07.954 --> 01:13:09.889
- 'cause he's a athlete.
- Come on.

1582
01:13:09.923 --> 01:13:11.524
- So he got that determination.
- Oh, yeah.

1583
01:13:11.558 --> 01:13:13.460
I told them
"Don't go light on him.

1584
01:13:13.493 --> 01:13:15.662
Go hard. Push that..."

1585
01:13:15.695 --> 01:13:16.663
- Wood.
- Yeah.

1586
01:13:16.696 --> 01:13:18.565
Push that wood.

1587
01:13:18.598 --> 01:13:19.833
That's the thing in football,
right?

1588
01:13:19.866 --> 01:13:20.967
- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah.

1589
01:13:21.001 --> 01:13:22.669
So I tell them
Push the wood."

1590
01:13:22.702 --> 01:13:25.605
Nothing but the grace of God
got us to this point

1591
01:13:25.638 --> 01:13:28.608
in, uh, Sam's fate,

1592
01:13:28.641 --> 01:13:30.010
for him knowing the Healer,

1593
01:13:30.043 --> 01:13:32.479
you know, and even
when he was having

1594
01:13:32.512 --> 01:13:33.480
these little tremors,

1595
01:13:33.513 --> 01:13:34.681
I said, "Oh, boy,

1596
01:13:34.714 --> 01:13:36.516
look like you're
catching the Holy Ghost."

1597
01:13:36.549 --> 01:13:37.717
I said,
"You should say hallelujah."

1598
01:13:37.751 --> 01:13:40.053
He would be in the hospital,

1599
01:13:40.086 --> 01:13:42.022
and if he caught one,
he'd go up the hallway.

1600
01:13:42.055 --> 01:13:43.656
Hallelujah.

1601
01:13:43.690 --> 01:13:45.992
[ laughs ]

1602
01:13:46.026 --> 01:13:48.962
Thank God for you
because, you know,

1603
01:13:48.995 --> 01:13:51.531
just stepping in
and looking after Sam,

1604
01:13:51.564 --> 01:13:52.532
you and your husband,

1605
01:13:52.565 --> 01:13:54.801
and just being there for him

1606
01:13:54.834 --> 01:13:58.538
in this whole time of need,
you know,

1607
01:13:58.571 --> 01:14:00.807
is much appreciated.

1608
01:14:00.840 --> 01:14:04.077
He know I'm mushy,
so he'll be laughing at me

1609
01:14:04.110 --> 01:14:05.979
- when I get teary.
- Yeah.

1610
01:14:06.012 --> 01:14:08.014
[ laughs ]
But I appreciate that.

1611
01:14:08.048 --> 01:14:09.549
I appreciate that.

1612
01:14:09.582 --> 01:14:11.518
Just a touching story
all around,

1613
01:14:11.551 --> 01:14:12.786
you know?

1614
01:14:12.819 --> 01:14:13.820
Yeah.

1615
01:14:13.853 --> 01:14:19.859
***

1616
01:14:26.299 --> 01:14:29.269
* Jealousy, baby *

1617
01:14:29.302 --> 01:14:32.005
* Won't get you nowhere... *

1618
01:14:38.011 --> 01:14:39.846
The city, they come together

1619
01:14:39.879 --> 01:14:41.815
for what they want
to come together for.

1620
01:14:41.848 --> 01:14:43.650
They talk for when
they want to talk.

1621
01:14:43.683 --> 01:14:45.819
They look out for
who they want to look out for.

1622
01:14:50.323 --> 01:14:51.758
* Jealousy, baby *

1623
01:14:51.791 --> 01:14:53.059
Hi, Mike.

1624
01:14:53.093 --> 01:14:54.794
* Won't get you no... *

1625
01:14:54.828 --> 01:14:57.697
There's a lack of love
for each other,

1626
01:14:57.731 --> 01:15:00.633
and that's what's missing.

1627
01:15:00.667 --> 01:15:02.602
As a community,

1628
01:15:02.635 --> 01:15:04.037
we have to shoulder up
to everybody...

1629
01:15:06.172 --> 01:15:08.708
because when something
happens in New Orleans,

1630
01:15:08.742 --> 01:15:10.043
we're all affected by it.

1631
01:15:15.915 --> 01:15:18.318
* Jealousy, baby... *

1632
01:15:18.351 --> 01:15:20.020
- Welcome, welcome.
- How you doing?

1633
01:15:20.053 --> 01:15:22.122
- You get to meet the man.
- [ laughing ] Yes.

1634
01:15:22.155 --> 01:15:23.623
- Yes.
- This is Devin.

1635
01:15:23.656 --> 01:15:24.791
- Hi, Devin.
- This is Calvin.

1636
01:15:24.824 --> 01:15:26.159
How you doing, brother?
What's up, bruh?

1637
01:15:26.192 --> 01:15:27.360
- How you feeling?
- Good.

1638
01:15:27.394 --> 01:15:28.728
- Good.
- I definitely think

1639
01:15:28.762 --> 01:15:30.030
Devin can change his direction,

1640
01:15:30.063 --> 01:15:32.032
but Devin has to want
to change it.

1641
01:15:32.065 --> 01:15:33.800
We're gonna let y'all talk.

1642
01:15:33.833 --> 01:15:36.369
I think Calvin can try
to put him on the right track

1643
01:15:36.403 --> 01:15:37.771
because he's been
in the streets.

1644
01:15:37.804 --> 01:15:39.139
He know
what the streets is about.

1645
01:15:39.172 --> 01:15:41.908
He did some of the things
that Devin's doing now.

1646
01:15:41.941 --> 01:15:44.077
So, man, just tell me
some things about you, bruh.

1647
01:15:45.679 --> 01:15:47.914
Well, as for me right now,

1648
01:15:47.947 --> 01:15:52.185
it ain't looking well
because, um,

1649
01:15:52.218 --> 01:15:55.121
it's just a lot of felony
charges right now for me.

1650
01:15:55.155 --> 01:15:57.190
So how many charges
you have right now?

1651
01:15:57.223 --> 01:16:02.829
Uh, right now I'd say about 14.

1652
01:16:02.862 --> 01:16:04.964
What's the worst one?

1653
01:16:04.998 --> 01:16:07.901
Uh...grand theft auto,
I think.

1654
01:16:07.934 --> 01:16:10.103
Grand theft auto? Okay.

1655
01:16:10.136 --> 01:16:11.771
No violent charges.

1656
01:16:11.805 --> 01:16:13.807
No carjacking,
no armed robbery.

1657
01:16:13.840 --> 01:16:15.075
Nothing like that.

1658
01:16:15.108 --> 01:16:17.744
Now I just want you to know
that I understand

1659
01:16:17.777 --> 01:16:20.747
because I used to be your age.
I used to go to jail.

1660
01:16:20.780 --> 01:16:23.016
I done been shot.
I done been stabbed.

1661
01:16:23.049 --> 01:16:25.919
I've been to jail for murder.

1662
01:16:27.687 --> 01:16:28.955
First degree murder,

1663
01:16:28.988 --> 01:16:31.191
four counts of first degree
attempted murder.

1664
01:16:31.224 --> 01:16:32.992
So I want you to know
that we are no different.

1665
01:16:34.961 --> 01:16:36.930
The only difference
between you and I

1666
01:16:36.963 --> 01:16:38.998
is that I'm doing something
different with my life,

1667
01:16:39.032 --> 01:16:41.735
and I would like to show you
how to do the same thing.

1668
01:16:45.005 --> 01:16:47.007
When I was 14 years old,

1669
01:16:47.040 --> 01:16:49.843
I was sentenced
to juvenile life,

1670
01:16:49.876 --> 01:16:52.112
and I spent four years
in that place.

1671
01:16:52.145 --> 01:16:53.780
All right?

1672
01:16:53.813 --> 01:16:55.715
Four years.

1673
01:16:55.749 --> 01:16:58.718
And after I got out of there,

1674
01:16:58.752 --> 01:17:01.154
because I didn't
change my mindset,

1675
01:17:01.187 --> 01:17:05.458
it wasn't but a year later
that someone shot me.

1676
01:17:05.492 --> 01:17:08.995
All this is because
I made a decision

1677
01:17:09.029 --> 01:17:10.930
to do some things...

1678
01:17:13.299 --> 01:17:14.968
that destroyed my life.

1679
01:17:15.001 --> 01:17:16.703
So, man, how do you feel

1680
01:17:16.736 --> 01:17:18.938
about some of those things
that I'm telling you?

1681
01:17:18.972 --> 01:17:21.207
To me, I think you're saying
that, um...

1682
01:17:23.309 --> 01:17:25.145
what goes around comes around.

1683
01:17:25.178 --> 01:17:26.813
Absolutely.

1684
01:17:26.846 --> 01:17:28.882
That--That--That's definitely
what happens.

1685
01:17:28.915 --> 01:17:31.051
What goes around comes around.

1686
01:17:31.084 --> 01:17:33.153
So they told me
someone shot at you, right?

1687
01:17:33.186 --> 01:17:35.255
Someone tried to kill you.

1688
01:17:35.288 --> 01:17:36.856
If you seen him right now,
what would you do?

1689
01:17:40.093 --> 01:17:42.195
Fight.

1690
01:17:42.228 --> 01:17:44.964
But he shot at you last time.

1691
01:17:44.998 --> 01:17:46.466
So now there's some--

1692
01:17:46.499 --> 01:17:48.501
this done grew
beyond the fight.

1693
01:17:48.535 --> 01:17:50.236
So you're saying
if you see him again

1694
01:17:50.270 --> 01:17:51.871
you're gonna want to fight.
He might have a gun.

1695
01:17:51.905 --> 01:17:52.939
He don't want to fight.

1696
01:17:56.509 --> 01:17:57.911
Do you understand
what I'm saying?

1697
01:17:57.944 --> 01:17:59.512
You see where I'm going
with that?

1698
01:17:59.546 --> 01:18:04.184
One of the myths
I always try to, uh, dispel

1699
01:18:04.217 --> 01:18:07.020
is beef don't die.

1700
01:18:07.053 --> 01:18:07.954
Right?

1701
01:18:07.987 --> 01:18:09.756
So let me tell you.

1702
01:18:09.789 --> 01:18:11.057
The brothers who shot me,

1703
01:18:11.091 --> 01:18:13.493
we grew up together, right?

1704
01:18:13.526 --> 01:18:16.062
I shot one of them.
He shot me.

1705
01:18:16.096 --> 01:18:17.931
And guess what.
We're cool, bruh.

1706
01:18:17.964 --> 01:18:20.133
We see each other, we--
we get along

1707
01:18:20.166 --> 01:18:23.870
because someone intervened

1708
01:18:23.903 --> 01:18:25.939
and said no,
this is not gonna happen.

1709
01:18:25.972 --> 01:18:27.507
Like, y'all need
to talk about this.

1710
01:18:27.540 --> 01:18:29.509
All of us still alive

1711
01:18:29.542 --> 01:18:32.245
because we was able
to talk out a situation.

1712
01:18:35.815 --> 01:18:37.217
Do you have any young
brothers and sisters?

1713
01:18:37.250 --> 01:18:38.818
Yeah.

1714
01:18:38.852 --> 01:18:40.086
Do you have a brother
younger than you?

1715
01:18:40.120 --> 01:18:41.521
- Yeah.
- How old is he?

1716
01:18:41.554 --> 01:18:43.556
7. He just turned 7 today.

1717
01:18:43.590 --> 01:18:45.959
He like you, huh?
He look up to you?

1718
01:18:45.992 --> 01:18:47.927
He like you,
like the way you dress,

1719
01:18:47.961 --> 01:18:50.797
like to be around you
and all that, right?

1720
01:18:50.830 --> 01:18:53.967
'Cause you know
that he is more likely to do

1721
01:18:54.000 --> 01:18:57.137
what he sees y'all doing,
what he see you doing,

1722
01:18:57.170 --> 01:18:59.572
'cause he want to be you.
He want to be like you.

1723
01:18:59.606 --> 01:19:01.541
"I'm gonna be
like my big brother."

1724
01:19:01.574 --> 01:19:03.843
You got any older brothers?

1725
01:19:03.877 --> 01:19:06.179
- Uh, yeah.
- Mm-hmm.

1726
01:19:06.212 --> 01:19:08.915
- He in jail.
- In jail?

1727
01:19:08.948 --> 01:19:11.251
But let me ask you this.
When you were younger,

1728
01:19:11.284 --> 01:19:13.186
did you want to be
like your big brother?

1729
01:19:13.219 --> 01:19:14.821
Yeah.

1730
01:19:14.854 --> 01:19:18.158
And he in jail?
And where you headed now?

1731
01:19:18.191 --> 01:19:19.859
Same place.

1732
01:19:19.893 --> 01:19:22.262
You understand what I'm
talking about right now?

1733
01:19:22.295 --> 01:19:24.397
So what you think your
little brother's gonna be like

1734
01:19:24.431 --> 01:19:26.566
if you don't stop that?

1735
01:19:26.599 --> 01:19:28.335
Either dead or in jail.

1736
01:19:28.368 --> 01:19:32.572
You were not put here
to do what you're doing.

1737
01:19:32.605 --> 01:19:35.375
Find your greatness.
Find your purpose.

1738
01:19:35.408 --> 01:19:36.843
And do that.

1739
01:19:39.312 --> 01:19:40.914
Because the real deal is,

1740
01:19:40.947 --> 01:19:43.016
if you don't have a plan
for your life,

1741
01:19:43.049 --> 01:19:46.286
the system got a plan
for your life already.

1742
01:19:46.319 --> 01:19:49.022
The jail is built already

1743
01:19:49.055 --> 01:19:51.291
for people like you
to come into

1744
01:19:51.324 --> 01:19:53.259
who don't have a plan
for their life.

1745
01:19:53.293 --> 01:19:55.962
They got a room for you
all the time.

1746
01:19:55.995 --> 01:19:57.297
They're never gonna
turn you around

1747
01:19:57.330 --> 01:19:58.998
and say "We ain't got
no bed for you."

1748
01:19:59.032 --> 01:20:00.333
I just want you to know,
brother,

1749
01:20:00.367 --> 01:20:02.902
that, whatever it is
you went through in your life,

1750
01:20:02.936 --> 01:20:05.372
whatever's going on with you,

1751
01:20:05.405 --> 01:20:07.640
you're not by yourself,
you know.

1752
01:20:07.674 --> 01:20:09.409
That's where I'm at,
brother Devin,

1753
01:20:09.442 --> 01:20:12.045
so, brother, I just hope

1754
01:20:12.078 --> 01:20:17.017
that you'll allow me
to be your big brother

1755
01:20:17.050 --> 01:20:20.320
and let me help you,
you know,

1756
01:20:20.353 --> 01:20:22.355
the way someone helped me.

1757
01:20:22.389 --> 01:20:23.990
You know, let me help you

1758
01:20:24.024 --> 01:20:27.227
to get through this dark time
in your life

1759
01:20:27.260 --> 01:20:31.264
and get you on track
and get you on the right road,

1760
01:20:31.297 --> 01:20:34.167
and I'm willing to do that
if you're willing to have me

1761
01:20:34.200 --> 01:20:38.004
to do that with you, so...

1762
01:20:38.038 --> 01:20:40.674
do I have your permission,
brother?

1763
01:20:40.707 --> 01:20:43.043
Yes, you do.

1764
01:20:43.076 --> 01:20:44.978
I'm looking forward
to working with you, brother.

1765
01:20:45.011 --> 01:20:47.380
[ chorus humming ]

1766
01:20:53.253 --> 01:20:54.688
How you doing, my brother?

1767
01:20:54.721 --> 01:20:56.389
- Can I give you one of these?
- Yeah.

1768
01:20:58.324 --> 01:21:00.427
Man, we're trying to do
our part to stop the violence.

1769
01:21:00.460 --> 01:21:02.228
This is the Stop the Beef
Hotline.

1770
01:21:02.262 --> 01:21:03.663
- Right.
- Free of charge.

1771
01:21:03.697 --> 01:21:05.365
No police involvement,
all right?

1772
01:21:05.398 --> 01:21:06.466
- Okay.
- All right, my brother.

1773
01:21:06.499 --> 01:21:08.134
The New Orleans Peace Keepers
mission,

1774
01:21:08.168 --> 01:21:11.104
it's a violence reduction
initiative.

1775
01:21:11.137 --> 01:21:13.707
We started off just walking in,
like, the violent neighborhoods.

1776
01:21:13.740 --> 01:21:15.975
We say, like, a hour of power--

1777
01:21:16.009 --> 01:21:17.477
one hour of doing something

1778
01:21:17.510 --> 01:21:21.214
is better than 24 hours
of doing nothing, right?

1779
01:21:21.247 --> 01:21:23.049
You know,
'cause these simple fights

1780
01:21:23.083 --> 01:21:24.984
evolve into somebody
getting killed.

1781
01:21:25.018 --> 01:21:26.986
Gunplay, so get involved.
Stop it, you know?

1782
01:21:27.020 --> 01:21:28.288
- Yeah.
- Say something.

1783
01:21:28.321 --> 01:21:30.357
In the Black culture,

1784
01:21:30.390 --> 01:21:32.459
if you get involved,
you're a rat.

1785
01:21:32.492 --> 01:21:34.260
Hey, baby.

1786
01:21:34.294 --> 01:21:36.396
- And we got to stop that.
- Yeah.

1787
01:21:36.429 --> 01:21:38.131
You can probably save
somebody's life,

1788
01:21:38.164 --> 01:21:39.265
and you're not ratting,

1789
01:21:39.299 --> 01:21:41.201
you're just helping
the situation.

1790
01:21:41.234 --> 01:21:43.269
We started the Conflict
Resolution Hotline,

1791
01:21:43.303 --> 01:21:45.472
which is known
as Squash the Beef Hotline

1792
01:21:45.505 --> 01:21:46.706
here in the city
of New Orleans.

1793
01:21:46.740 --> 01:21:48.108
How's it going?

1794
01:21:48.141 --> 01:21:49.376
Someone will call the hotline,

1795
01:21:49.409 --> 01:21:51.711
and we get them to begin
to start doing

1796
01:21:51.745 --> 01:21:54.547
what they haven't done
up to that moment,

1797
01:21:54.581 --> 01:21:55.715
which is to communicate.

1798
01:21:55.749 --> 01:21:57.183
We get them to the table,

1799
01:21:57.217 --> 01:21:58.485
and they're going
back and forth,

1800
01:21:58.518 --> 01:22:00.353
then we intervene
and say "Yo,

1801
01:22:00.387 --> 01:22:01.454
what are y'all beefing about?"

1802
01:22:01.488 --> 01:22:04.090
And they stop,
and they're like,

1803
01:22:04.124 --> 01:22:05.458
"I don't even know."

1804
01:22:05.492 --> 01:22:07.093
Hey, how y'all doing?

1805
01:22:07.127 --> 01:22:10.296
Of course we meet people
that say it doesn't work,

1806
01:22:10.330 --> 01:22:12.399
but we have been able
to resolve 46.

1807
01:22:12.432 --> 01:22:14.367
And two of those mothers
who we've been able to help,

1808
01:22:14.401 --> 01:22:16.136
it's like we've saved
the whole world,

1809
01:22:16.169 --> 01:22:19.005
so we're just really trying
to change the culture.

1810
01:22:19.039 --> 01:22:20.206
- Yeah. We need to.
- Yeah.

1811
01:22:20.240 --> 01:22:21.207
It's very important.

1812
01:22:21.241 --> 01:22:23.009
People feel

1813
01:22:23.043 --> 01:22:24.778
that resolving conflict

1814
01:22:24.811 --> 01:22:27.213
without smacking somebody
or punching somebody

1815
01:22:27.247 --> 01:22:29.282
is weak.

1816
01:22:29.315 --> 01:22:31.284
We're trying to bring attention
to this hotline that we have

1817
01:22:31.317 --> 01:22:33.319
trying to stop the violence,
man--Squash the Beef.

1818
01:22:33.353 --> 01:22:34.421
I don't know
where they get that from,

1819
01:22:34.454 --> 01:22:36.222
and I think it sometimes
stems from

1820
01:22:36.256 --> 01:22:38.558
this misunderstanding
of what manhood is,

1821
01:22:38.591 --> 01:22:41.194
and some people think
that being a man

1822
01:22:41.227 --> 01:22:45.465
is based upon your ability
to invoke fear in another.

1823
01:22:45.498 --> 01:22:47.067
Hey, how y'all doing?
Look at--

1824
01:22:47.100 --> 01:22:49.202
- Hey.
- Mama, Big Freedia here!

1825
01:22:49.235 --> 01:22:50.537
Hey, let me give y'all this

1826
01:22:50.570 --> 01:22:52.405
to try to stop the violence
in the--

1827
01:22:52.439 --> 01:22:54.140
in the city, all right?

1828
01:22:54.174 --> 01:22:56.076
They're so cute.

1829
01:22:56.109 --> 01:22:57.444
So adorable.

1830
01:22:59.446 --> 01:23:01.548
I haven't been on this block

1831
01:23:01.581 --> 01:23:03.350
since my brother was killed
right there.

1832
01:23:03.383 --> 01:23:04.317
Wow.

1833
01:23:07.320 --> 01:23:08.521
Definitely rough.

1834
01:23:08.555 --> 01:23:09.522
Yeah.

1835
01:23:12.192 --> 01:23:14.627
Unfortunately, this is where
my brother was killed,

1836
01:23:14.661 --> 01:23:17.397
and the little kids
in front of the house,

1837
01:23:17.430 --> 01:23:20.200
they planted this tree
in remembrance of my brother.

1838
01:23:20.233 --> 01:23:21.501
Damn, man.

1839
01:23:21.534 --> 01:23:23.336
- You know.
- How did that make you feel?

1840
01:23:23.370 --> 01:23:25.605
It made me feel
really good, you know?

1841
01:23:25.638 --> 01:23:29.409
I hadn't been to this spot
since it happened.

1842
01:23:29.442 --> 01:23:30.477
- Yeah.
- You know.

1843
01:23:30.510 --> 01:23:31.811
I'm getting the strength now

1844
01:23:31.845 --> 01:23:34.481
to just spread the word
in courage

1845
01:23:34.514 --> 01:23:37.183
so that another family
won't have to go

1846
01:23:37.217 --> 01:23:38.318
what we went through,
you know?

1847
01:23:40.286 --> 01:23:42.188
I wish I was there

1848
01:23:42.222 --> 01:23:44.424
to be able to resolve
whatever was about to happen

1849
01:23:44.457 --> 01:23:46.159
or whatever happened.

1850
01:23:46.192 --> 01:23:50.196
I know that I could have
found the resolution to fix it

1851
01:23:50.230 --> 01:23:53.166
if I was there or knew
what was gonna happen.

1852
01:23:56.636 --> 01:23:59.272
- Hey, how's it going?
- Michelle, this is Devin.

1853
01:23:59.305 --> 01:24:01.341
Michelle Charles.
Very nice meeting you.

1854
01:24:01.374 --> 01:24:03.443
How you doing, brother Devin?

1855
01:24:09.649 --> 01:24:11.384
Devin is 14.

1856
01:24:11.418 --> 01:24:13.119
He hasn't even begun

1857
01:24:13.153 --> 01:24:15.288
to start his journey

1858
01:24:15.321 --> 01:24:18.224
of where he can go in life.

1859
01:24:18.258 --> 01:24:22.495
I hope we're not losing him
to the jail system.

1860
01:24:22.529 --> 01:24:24.364
Not too much talking today,
okay?

1861
01:24:24.397 --> 01:24:26.332
All right. So you ready?

1862
01:24:26.366 --> 01:24:28.201
Following your lead.

1863
01:24:28.234 --> 01:24:31.571
Once you introduce the child
to the system,

1864
01:24:31.604 --> 01:24:36.142
one arrest
alters that kid's trajectory.

1865
01:24:36.176 --> 01:24:38.211
One arrest.

1866
01:24:38.244 --> 01:24:40.213
And now the dominos
start to fall.

1867
01:24:48.621 --> 01:24:50.190
- Hey, hey.
- Hey.

1868
01:24:50.223 --> 01:24:52.325
- How are you doing?
- Doing all right.

1869
01:24:52.359 --> 01:24:54.461
- Good to see you.
- All right.

1870
01:24:54.494 --> 01:24:58.598
So we have--The cameras
are going up right now.

1871
01:24:58.631 --> 01:25:00.467
One of the cameras will be
facing over here.

1872
01:25:00.500 --> 01:25:02.936
Yeah. This is where
my brother got killed,

1873
01:25:02.969 --> 01:25:05.305
right in front
of that blue house.

1874
01:25:05.338 --> 01:25:07.474
Why I wanted to put
a camera on that block--

1875
01:25:07.507 --> 01:25:11.211
to feel the presence
of my brother's spirit

1876
01:25:11.244 --> 01:25:14.280
and let him know that he's
gonna look over this block.

1877
01:25:14.314 --> 01:25:16.416
This camera that's going up
that you're helping us with

1878
01:25:16.449 --> 01:25:18.284
is gonna be the first camera
in the city of New Orleans

1879
01:25:18.318 --> 01:25:20.253
that offered
gunshot protection.

1880
01:25:20.286 --> 01:25:21.454
- Oh, wow.
- Camera's gonna start to spin.

1881
01:25:21.488 --> 01:25:23.556
It's gonna take
a quick assessment

1882
01:25:23.590 --> 01:25:25.358
- of the entire area.
- Oh, wow.

1883
01:25:25.392 --> 01:25:27.694
We're gonna know in real time
if something bad's happening,

1884
01:25:27.727 --> 01:25:29.229
and we're going to be
able to help

1885
01:25:29.262 --> 01:25:30.296
with the police response.

1886
01:25:30.330 --> 01:25:31.498
Yeah, this is amazing.

1887
01:25:31.531 --> 01:25:34.367
Hoping that putting up
these cameras

1888
01:25:34.401 --> 01:25:37.437
can, you know,
help the next person

1889
01:25:37.470 --> 01:25:39.372
if something like this happens

1890
01:25:39.406 --> 01:25:41.174
'cause we still don't have
any closure.

1891
01:25:46.279 --> 01:25:48.648
* Oh, well, well *

1892
01:25:48.682 --> 01:25:52.619
* Don't be uneasy *

1893
01:25:52.652 --> 01:25:56.489
* Don't be uneasy *

1894
01:25:56.523 --> 01:25:58.491
* Well, well *

1895
01:25:58.525 --> 01:26:02.262
* Don't be uneasy *

1896
01:26:02.295 --> 01:26:06.666
* Jesus gon' make up
the dying bed *

1897
01:26:06.700 --> 01:26:08.568
- Freedia: Where the lighter?
- No light in your eyes?

1898
01:26:08.601 --> 01:26:10.270
We ain't got no lighters
over here?

1899
01:26:10.303 --> 01:26:12.005
Where the smokers at?
Where the smokers at?

1900
01:26:12.038 --> 01:26:13.606
Here, let me put you--
give me a paper.

1901
01:26:13.640 --> 01:26:15.442
- Shawn got a light.
- Thank you.

1902
01:26:15.475 --> 01:26:16.576
You got it?

1903
01:26:19.579 --> 01:26:23.416
This last year has been
a really rough year for me.

1904
01:26:23.450 --> 01:26:26.019
I had to learn
how to control my emotions

1905
01:26:26.052 --> 01:26:27.687
and find peace,

1906
01:26:27.721 --> 01:26:30.623
and still it's a--
a daily process.

1907
01:26:30.657 --> 01:26:32.492
Tonight we want
to remember Adam,

1908
01:26:32.525 --> 01:26:34.461
and we're gonna celebrate

1909
01:26:34.494 --> 01:26:36.429
'cause you know
he wouldn't want us to be sad.

1910
01:26:36.463 --> 01:26:39.733
He'd want us to jam
'cause he was a lively person.

1911
01:26:39.766 --> 01:26:42.769
He was full of life
and full of joy.

1912
01:26:47.540 --> 01:26:51.311
We remembered our loved ones
by celebrating their lives.

1913
01:26:51.344 --> 01:26:54.581
[ Dixieland jazz plays ]

1914
01:26:54.614 --> 01:26:57.350
We have a centerline band,
and we come out,

1915
01:26:57.384 --> 01:27:00.053
and we act a fool for him.

1916
01:27:00.086 --> 01:27:02.322
* Jesus on the mainline *

1917
01:27:02.355 --> 01:27:04.391
* Tell Him what you want *

1918
01:27:04.424 --> 01:27:06.559
* Jesus on the mainline *

1919
01:27:06.593 --> 01:27:08.428
* Tell Him what you want *

1920
01:27:17.671 --> 01:27:20.607
It will take us as a community
to end the gun violence,

1921
01:27:20.640 --> 01:27:24.744
each and every family,
each and every individual.

1922
01:27:24.778 --> 01:27:26.379
That's the only way
that it's gonna happen.

1923
01:27:31.384 --> 01:27:34.654
I think it's important to focus
on saving one person at a time

1924
01:27:34.688 --> 01:27:36.056
'cause if you can't save one,

1925
01:27:36.089 --> 01:27:37.657
you sure can't save
more than one.

1926
01:28:10.490 --> 01:28:12.692
Well!

1927
01:28:12.726 --> 01:28:15.795
[ laughter ]

1928
01:28:16.863 --> 01:28:18.431
* Danger *

1929
01:28:18.465 --> 01:28:19.566
* Oh, yes *

1930
01:28:19.599 --> 01:28:21.368
- * Danger *
- * Wow *

1931
01:28:21.401 --> 01:28:22.669
* Danger *

1932
01:28:22.702 --> 01:28:25.372
- * Let's do this *
- * Danger *

1933
01:28:25.405 --> 01:28:27.407
* Everywhere we go
is dangerous *

1934
01:28:27.440 --> 01:28:29.676
* I'm so dangerous *

1935
01:28:29.709 --> 01:28:31.544
* Everywhere we go
is dangerous *

1936
01:28:31.578 --> 01:28:34.414
* I just want
to be dangerous *

1937
01:28:34.447 --> 01:28:35.648
* Everywhere we go
is dangerous *

1938
01:28:35.682 --> 01:28:36.883
* Dangerous *

1939
01:28:36.916 --> 01:28:37.917
* Everywhere we go
is dangerous *

1940
01:28:37.951 --> 01:28:39.552
* Dangerous *

1941
01:28:39.586 --> 01:28:40.787
* Everywhere we go
is dangerous *

1942
01:28:40.820 --> 01:28:43.123
- * Dangerous *
- * Dangerous *

1943
01:28:43.156 --> 01:28:45.492
* D-A-N-G-E-R *

1944
01:28:45.525 --> 01:28:47.694
* Danger, danger *

1945
01:28:47.727 --> 01:28:49.829
* D-A-N-G-E-R *

1946
01:28:49.863 --> 01:28:52.432
* Danger, danger *

1947
01:28:52.465 --> 01:28:54.601
* Everywhere we go
is dangerous *

1948
01:28:54.634 --> 01:28:56.803
* Everywhere we go
is dangerous *

1949
01:28:56.836 --> 01:28:58.938
* Everywhere we go
is dangerous *

1950
01:28:58.972 --> 01:29:00.907
- * Dangerous *
- * Dangerous *